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...satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps be carried away by their new freedom, but it is the firm belief of the faculty that the great majority will use their privileges wisely and with great profit to themselves." After midyears Harvard will revert to blackboard and lecturer. May 5 a second period, preparatory to final examinations will be dedicated to reading books...
There exist about 8,500 Ford dealers. Their profit on each Ford they sell is 20%. (Dealers in other cars get 24% profit.) For six months Ford dealers have been clearing their show rooms of Model T Fords and parts. A fortnight ago all were bare. Last week most continued bare, for the Ford Motor Co. had prepared only about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars...
...ends. There are, however, several notable experiments tending aainst this principle. The Jewish Daily Forward, published in several large American cities, is the most noteworthy of these. The successful paper devotes its gains to altruistic aims, and has practically demonstrated how a paper can be run with no financial profit. Until general recognition is made of this fact, journalistic ethics, in the true sense of the term, will be honored rather in the breach than in the observance in the daily newspapers of America...
...Louis, the Municipal Opera balanced its books, found that its summer season had netted $2,334.51 profit. Recalling the seven previous consecutive seasons in which the books had shown profit, again the St. Louis Municipal Opera laid claim to being the only self-sustaining, civically directed musical enterprise...
Binding the U. S. are 62 chain store systems. Besides 5 & lO? stores, there are stores for shoes, furniture, music, drugs, cigarets, candy & food. As they profit, so profits the nation. Their condition is accepted by statisticians as the nearest to an infallible arrow of prosperity or decline as exists. Last week 30 of them reported that their ten months' receipts to Nov. 1 were $843,292,700-more than the business in 1926 by $106,-471,445. Accordingly, the U. S. is better off industrially by 14.45% than...