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...small that it was a negligible factor in our educational system," reports Mr. Donham. "After that year there was a considerable growth, but the striking increase is literally in the academic year 1919-20. Several of the leading schools this year had entering classes from 50 to 100 percent larger than ever before, and their total enrollment runs into the thousands. The development seems likely to be not toward fewer students, but toward still further radical increase in numbers in the near future...
...Because of the speed with which the work was covered, no examinations were given, yet some 50 percent...
...soon referred to again. Paper dope can never be relied on, but undoubtedly the system being broken by the war had a lot to do with it. The greatest mistake by far was, however, the use of old-fashioned football. It's different now, not brawn but 99 percent brains. There won't be any mistakes next year and every one is confident of success...
...gross profit on sales, taking all departments of business together, was 23.4 percent of the volume of business. The ration of expenses to sales was 12.28 percent. In other words, it cost the Cooperative Society about twelve and a quarter cents, on the average, to sell each dollar's worth of goods. Compared with retail stores in the million dollars year class, this expense ratio is believed to be very favorable. It is the aim of the Cooperative Society to sell goods at the market price the same as other stores, no more and no less. The main difference...
...question now comes down to a question of fact. In the government which the Filipinos now enjoy, stable The present government is about 88 percent Filipino and 12 percent American. The Governor-General, Vice-Governor, Treasurer and Auditor are all Americans appointed by the President of the United States, and the judges of the Supreme Court, similarly appointed, have an American majority. There is a considerable American army out there and two questions which a fair-minded man must determine are (firstly) how stable the government is, and (secondly) how much of the stability is due to the fact that...