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...offer to "reward" the subscriber who detects a genuine new fashion with "knowledge that he has performed a petty public service." First I ask you if it would not be only decent to give such a subscriber at least $10 for services which are to your profit. It makes me angry to see people trying to get away with something for nothing. That is not a straight way to do business. It will not react to your favor in the long...
...detail upon which Oxford still lacks reassurance. Disillusioning though it be, Oxford must find out before it is too late who wrote the scenario. The idea of Cambridge stooping to such subterfuge is almost absurd; still, Caesar had his Brutus, Harvard its Donald Ogden Stewart, and Oxford may profit by their example...
...miners retort that lignite delivered in Berlin for $5.20 a ton retails for $9 a ton, which they claimed is too great a profit for the middleman. They therefore suggested that their claims could be met from this source without raising the price to the consumer. But the middlemen have to pay for unloading at the freight yards, transportation to the selling point and unloading there, not to mention high overhead cost...
...head in public places, and kind relatives used to supply him with constant provender, the gentlemen with buffalo nickels, and the ladies with peppermints. A utilitarian even at his early age, the Vagabond would persist in harmonizing his actions with his appearance, to his immense material profit and moral advantage in times of stress...
...Harvard cheering show any real life. Saturday's exhibition was the poorest of all. The team lost to Purdue after a game fight; the cheering section was practically beaten before the kickoff. In six weeks, on November 19, the team will be ready for Yale. Will the cheering section profit equally from these six weeks and be ready for Yale also...