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...estimated that a third of our population is unable to pay an appreciable sum for attorney's fees. In Boston the Legal Aid Society found that during the seventeen months ending August 31, 1917, the fees required by the state caused a total failure of justice for twenty-three percent of the persons who needed the aid of the courts. Last fall the Carnegie foundation issued a document called "Justice and the Poor" which shows how easy it is for a man to become an anarchist whom the New York Municipal Court has refused to aid in collecting...
Less than 50 percent of the subscribers for the Senior Album have called for their books at the Coop Branch-price $8.50. If each subscriber will secure his copy as soon as possible it will help the Photograph Committee greatly...
...track, men winning a point or fraction of a point in the Intercollegiate Championship meet, or a man winning first or second in the Harvard or Yale meet shall be awarded a "P". All men who have reported for at least 60 percent of the practices and is recommended by the captain coach and manager, shall receive an "A.P.A...
...steady increase in enrollment and contributions for the Harvard Endowment Fund in the Rhode Island district, under the leadership of W. G. Roekler Jr. has been one of the recent features of the campaign in New England. The Rhode Island alumni, now 60 percent enrolled, have raised $102,103, which is next to Boston in being the largest sum contributed by any New England district, having passed the Bristol County district three weeks ago. Daily subscriptions to the Boston portion of the fund continue...
...remedy such a situation, a sliding scale of rediscount rates was adopted, notes beyond a certain amount sent in by member banks for rediscount being charged an advancing rate of interest, reaching even nine and ten percent when the total ran exceptionally large. The banks were thus hindered from increasing unduly the regular lines of credit extended to their customers, and the business firms, in their turn, unable to borrow further except at exorbitant rates, were forced when in need of ready money to realize on their merchandise. A late season, tardy deliveries, a generally slow market, and the necessity...