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...States, also including visits to London, Paris, and Geneva. Foote will take the Danube tour, including South Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, and the Balkans as far as Constitinople. I should like to emphasize that all these tours are entirely different from the much-advertised and steriotyped tours of profit-making organizations. Everything is done by and for students and the aim is always that which I have pointed out in my preceding articles...
...tangles. Very early in Man's development, he found that what was advantageous to him individually, when practised by everybody did not seem to be good for the whole. Then as governments were developed, a more or less efficient judicial system was established so that no longer did it profit the individual to do what was unprofitable for everybody to do. Thus, the whole was made to equal the sum of its parts again. It remains for the League of Nations to establish that fundamental axiom in national ethics...
Unfortunately nothing Mere Man can do will stop the hungry Goddess of Scandal. It is a Woman's game and a Woman's profit. And, indeed, why should Man worry? He can now afford to spend the afternoons at the club, since the children can be brought up on the by-products of Margot's tongue, or the vitality or Edna's system, not to mention the gate receipts of a good case of moral turpitude, Fortune has left the office and the bank, and retired shyly to the boudoir...
...Bell, Northwestern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Mountain States T. & T., Pacific T. & T., Bell Tel. Laboratories, Bell Tel. Securities, Bell Tel. of Canada, Central Union Tel., Cuban-American T. & T., Western Electric (almost exclusive manufacturing agent), 195 Broadway Corp., 205 Broadway Corp. Portions of their individual earnings go to the profit of the parent corporation...
Perhaps the most important probable consequence of the plan will have to do with the Student Council itself. Not in vain did our English forefathers learn the lesson that in the purse strings lies power, and the Student Council may well profit by it. Decrees and recommendations are the symbols of authority, but in the purse itself is its reality. Backed by the student exchequer the authority of the Student Council ought more nearly to attain the weight which it deserves...