Word: outweighed
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...method of a close corporation, therefore, would be deprived of a check which has proved wholesome in the past. It remains to be seen how far its positive and obvious advantages outweigh this defect. In the first place, it is to fill its own vacancies, and therefore to insure higher experience and greater continuity of management. No doubt it is desirable that such an important business should be relieved from the fluctuations of accidental choice of Directors; and though Mr. Meyer assures us that in practice the Board nominates its own successors, there have been cases where that precaution...
...arguments in favor of wearing the outfit far outweigh the objections to doing so. There are new over five hundred and forty men whom the office is willing to rank as Seniors, but very few of the men in the class are acquainted with over one hundred and fifty of these. Let any Senior take the list of voters and count up the men he knows even by sight and he will be surprised at the smallness of his total. This is a state of things which should not exist and which we can easily remedy. If all the Seniors...