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Through the cooperation of Celian Ufford '19, Instructor in English, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, members of the debating team will lend their services to Phillips Brooks House when the occasion demands. By this arrangement, it is expected that both groups will profit. The speakers will gain valuable experience delivering lectures before strange audiences, while Phillips Brooks House will be aided in is outside work. Although the teams have not yet spoken, their first opportunity will probably come within two weeks...
...custom to sing tenor in a church choir, it is also my custom to peruse the current issue of TIME when the service is other than musical, also it often happens that a young lady soprano reads over my shoulder with me, to our mutual profit...
Censure. Two legislative days later the Norris resolution came before a gravely hushed Senate. Arose Senator Bingham, again to speak in self-defense, this time softly, tactfully. His defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...
...last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. reported nine months' net profit greater by $5,254,176 than its corresponding net last year. Similarly the Southern Railway System showed an increase...