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...mail is proving an incalculable asset to the government. For the past two months every part of the entire route from New York to San Francisco has been covered every day, regardless of weather conditions. This represents 100 percent efficiency for that period, the normal efficiency rate through two years being at least 96 percent. There has been no fatality in the past year...
...announced yesterday the elections for officers of the Sophomore Class will be held tomorrow from 8.45 until 6 o'clock at the Class of '77 Memorial Gate and from 8.45 until 1 o'clock at Sever Hall. A sixty percent ballot is needed to make the election valid. Post cards have been sent to every member of the Sophomore Class giving the list of candidates for each office...
When a class election, advertised for days beforehand, not only by bulletin board notices, but also by individual post-cards sent to every member, fails to come up to the constitutional quota by half of the required sixty percent vote, the condition of the class might be termed serious. It has been serious in every class for the past few years. But it has reached a point where it cannot be labelled "regrettable" or "unfortunates" and dismissed with an easy shrug of the shoulders as a "lack of class spirit". The Junior state of mind goes far deeper than that...
...second sort of price movement to be considered is the price of money, the course of interest rates. In the summer of 1920 the interest rates on commercial paper reached a high point of eight percent. From that peak they fell for two years, until in this August they were below four percent. Since then they have been rising, and it seems probable that they will tend to rise rather than to fall during the rest of 1922. If industry continues to expand during the early months of 1923, interest rates will probably advance. If they do advance...
Statistics, it has often been asserted, can be made to show anything. For instance, as the Alumni Bulletin of last week points out, less than eight percent of this year's awards at the Law School have gone to graduates of Harvard College, although these graduates form eighteen percent of the Law School's enrollment. In addition, all twelve of the higher awards went to men of other colleges...