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...managerial positions open to Sophomores, I was able to get much more out of my entire college career and I know that the experience gained in various business positions as an undergraduate has proved to be of great value to me since leaving the University. Though the essential object of going to college is still, and always will be, to obtain an education, yet training in undergraduate activities of this sort can well be a part of that mental discipline which fits a man to be graduated...
When this campaign among the alumni according to classes finished, the Executice Committees of a number of classes asked to be allowed to continue the canvass with the object both of bettering the class average and of adding a few more thousand dollars in the belief that it may encourage others to join in raising the remaining $1,800,000 needed...
...open to smokers--if no one else wants them first. The Fifth Avenue Coach Company did not take action until after a plebiscite among its passengers. The opinions of those who ride on the buses because they can smoke on the upper deck, and the opinions of those who object to have smoke, fire, and ashes in their eyes and hair are all set down in a pleasantly written and charmingly printed booklet by the coach company. Ah, yes! As charming and pleasant a pirate booklet as ever scuttled-one of the pleasures of the world...
...danger of uncovering a trail of dishonesty like that in the building operations in New York is that the public rushes along blinded to the ultimate purpose of the whole affair. Conviction of gratters is not the only end to be sought; the real object of all the turmoil is to make possible a solution of the housing problem by building more houses. Everyone realizes that the rent relief laws were only temporary; indeed their constitutionality depended on the fact that an emergency existed which allowed for an extraordinary use of the State's police powers...
...Harvard Travellers' Club was founded some eighteen years ago with the object of promoting intelligent travel and exploration. The activities of the Club have consisted chiefly of meetings during the winter months for the presentation of papers; exhibits of the products of sport and travel have also been given occasionally, and a gold medal has been awarded from time to time to members of the Community who have distinguished themselves in exploration...