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...Senior could profit by an expansion of interest in his Senior year it never before. College for the first time begins to mean something to him in broad perspective. Perspective of any sort is a real accomplishment. Usually your young man has to wait until he gets out of college to begin to see the thing clear and to see it whole. Probably this is the aim of our educators, although it is sadly unwise. And so what boots it anyhow to have anticipated this intellectual robustness in his Senior year? He must suffer the division of tastes and tasks...
...oarsmen will row at Newell every day from 2 to 4 o'clock in Tuesday they will have the rowing room all 5.15 on. This afternoon, and on Thursdays from 5.15 on. This is a considerable advantage over former Freshman crews, and the 1928 oarsmen are expected to profit by the additional opportunity for blade work in water...
...Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave, they will seek other friends to lay their case before the Vatican...
...church-skyscraper was built by the Aid Society at a cost of $3,500,000 on property valued at $3,000,000, bequeathed many years ago to the Methodist Church. This Church aims at self-support and at making a profit, which is to be divided among other Methodist churches. "From first to last," explained the Secretary-Treasurer, "the erection of this building has been carried on according to strict business principles. It was financed by a mortgage, not by small bonds sold to church members. It pays taxes at the same rate as regular commercial buildings. It has been...
Then, undoubtedly unconscious of the one and a half million odd dollars net profit which Mr. Samuel S. Childs is able yearly to distribute to his common stockholders, the Bulletin suggested that "if Childs proposes to charge the people twice what food is worth, some of the excess profits should go to the people instead of being devoted to Coney Island palaces...