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...late hour last night $651.50 had been raised and tabulated in the University's Louvain Library drive. Of this amount $470.50 was collected in the College, representing 18 percent of its $2600 quota...
...recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the drive, it was decided to continue the collection indefinitely until the $5000 quota is raised. Although the showing to date with only 13 percent of the allotment obtained is much poorer than had been expected, the Committee feels that the goal originally set out for will be reached when every collector has finished his canvassing...
...Crimson delegation will be necessarily limited to 28 men, although more than that have already applied, since each college may send to the camp only five percent of the men enrolled in its military science courses...
...according to statistics, the percentage of college graduates in the country is even less than one percent. They have for that very reason, a double obligation in that they must use the tools they have (or should have) acquired in college, and in that they must encourage others to develop themselves without college training. And they must work always to raise the standards of the country...
...person takes more care in his advertising than the proprietary medicine man. He knows the laws, their limitations, the efficiency of enforcement, and knows that outside of food and drug advertisements there is little or no systematic policing of false advertisements. The vitamine bunk shows practically 100 percent efficiency in complying with the advertising laws, but I believe that the continued sale of these products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological...