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...resident undergraduates to get them to sign up. In addition members of the committee will call on resident undergraduates who were out of town due to sleekness during the dormitory drive and secure subscriptions from them. Although when the Christmas recess began the resident undergraduates were practically 100 percent subscribed, the half-way mark had not been reached as regards non-resident students, the statistics showing that 54 percent in the class of 1921 had subscribed; 23 percent in the class of 1922 has subscribed; 40 percent in the class of 1923 has subscribed; and 70 percent in the class...
...recent class drive among the graduates of the University, nearly $50,000 has been received during the past ten days and 130 additional names placed on the Endowment Fund enrollment books. The fund has now reached a total of $13,920,875, or more than 91 percent of the desired amount, with 15,055 of the alumni subscribed. Many of the classes will continue to try to raise more money...
From North Carolina comes the news that this experiment is actually taking place in a large Iron Works and Supply Company. During a meeting called to discuss a disagreement over a twenty percent wage reduction, one of the employes suggested that the plant be managed by the workers and the profits distributed among them. The suggestion was accepted by the company and the experiment has begun...
...dependent on the other. Yet even the failure of the iron workers in their experiment will bring partial success: for both sides in dispute will have learned to know each other. Capital will have learned that workmen are human beings interested in management and profits; labor, that a twenty percent reduction in wages does not mean that the president and his friends are buying new houses and automobiles. Slowly but surely the new partnership is coming into existence, and with it industrial peace...
...College Endowment Fund Committee has worked out the returns form the non-dormitory members of the College upon a percentage basis and has found that out of the 497 non-dormitory members of the College, 43 percent have subscribed. The figures show that 54 percent of 88 non-dormitory members in the class of 1921 have subscribed; 28 percent of the 139 non-dormitory members in the class of 1922 have subscribed; 40 percent of the 132 non-dormitory members in the class of 1923 have subscribed; and 70 percent of the 138 non-dormitory members in the class...