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...most outstanding thing about the visiting team has been its unsteadiness. It has gone through its season in a most temperamental manner, sometimes defeating powerful aggregations, sometimes losing to teams generally considered its inferiors. As an example of the latter may be considered the contest it lost to the weak Columbia nine, while its drubbing of Boston College yesterday afternoon by the score of 11-8 was a proof of what the Maroon men can show when they so wish. The victory over Boston College was typical of the team's record in more than one way; the New York...
...reports that we had last year there was only one wholesale grocer who indicated that he was departmentizing his expenses in the manner that is necessary for obtaining the costs of operating each department. To departmentize expenses on this basis, it is necessary to prorate each item of expense to each department. Suppose, for example, that one of the departments is flour. The flour department would have to be charged with its pro rata share of the sales force expense, advertising expense, receiving and handling expense, rent, and so on for each of the other expenses. The basis for prorating...
...Carey's "Mr. Hooker Sells an antique" to illustrate a general defect in all the prose, he will feel ill-treated at this point. These few defects, however, illuminate the general merit of his story. HE has used a knowledge of the lore of antiques in a pleasing manner to set in relief a variety of humbug pervading the traffic in them. One feels a little as though he has been accustomed to writing for an audience to whom quaintness was prime virtue and formal antiquity the breath of life. His story is by far the best...
...instead of striking, or declaring a lockout, committees of the employers and laborers immediately concerned meet and thrash the matter out between themselves. There are no so-called walking delegates in China. Both sides abide by the decision of the committees, and all disputes are smoothed over in this manner...
...join a trade union, and be governed by its decisions, thus giving up all his personal liberty, or to be deprived of the opportunity to earn his living. The open shop stands for giving the laborer a chance to exercise his right of discrimination in choosing the place and manner in which he shall earn his living, and the associates with whom he shall work...