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...persons in either group, for a large percentage enter the establishments of relatives or friends and so do not appear on the records of the Appointment Office. This much only can be said--for the University at large, from 1905 to 1919, there was roughly an increase of 40 percent in the number of business positions accepted as against only 11 percent in the educational field...
...Philosophy. These fill the higher-grade positions for which a thorough university training is essential. Figures are not at present available to show the connection between the degree held and the position secured in each case; but the increase in the number of persons entering the educational field (11 percent) is roughly proportional to the growth of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The general conclusion to be arrived at is, therefore, that the University as a whole continues to supply its usual quota of professional educators, but that the secondary school teachers who formerly came from the newly...
...Weaver Brothers, excelling all others we have seen in extracting melody from a handsaw. Among others on the same bill were Bobby McLean in a skating act, Billy Glason, a noisy but good-humored comedian Elsa Ryan, in an act obviously designed to appeal to the politically dominant fifty percent of Boston's population, Rome and Gaut in a comedy act, and the customary athletic number...
...result of the first week of firing on the new pistol range at Waverly, fourteen students of the R. O. T. C. have made scores of 70 percent or over. The shooting so far has been 15 yards slow and time fire and 25 yards slow fire...
...order to pay its bills the government would be forced to apply a rate that would shift too much of the weight of taxation to the consumer. In 1910, according to an article by Dr. Henry A. E. Chandler in a recent issue of the "Economic World", over seventy percent of the total consumption expenditures of the United States was made up of the expenditures of families with incomes of less than eighteen hundred dollars a year. A large revenue realized through a tax mainly on necessities and a few luxuries would impose too great a burden upon...