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With sixty percent of the better men retaining, in addition to the excellent material in last year's Freshman Council, the Harvard Debating Council anticipate an active year and a good showing against other colleges...
...Walker also showed that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this...
...their ancestors were. "The depression of '49 was lifted by the discovery of gold in California," he said. "Where those miners suffered unfold hardships to attain their goal, modern searchers will be aided by improved transportation, which makes both labor and gold mobile. Furthermore, the fact that seventy percent of our metal miners, and ten thousand mining engineers are out of work, and twenty percent of our coal miners face starvation, points the way to a solution in which these men are sent to the work for which these men are sent to the work for which they...
...estate is expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright and $3,000,000 in trust;* to his son, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, $3,000,000 outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate...
...Office and the Committee on Admissions indicates that although approximately 325 Freshman were given some sort of financial aid by the College, only 107, or about one-half of those who applied, secured employment of any kind. Of those who did find work, the neediest men earned only 75 percent of their estimated requirements, the less needy 54 percent, and the least needy 48 percent. Of the $20,000 earned by Freshmen, $17,000 came from jobs within the University, and most of these were in the Freshman Dining Halls...