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...often been. Doubtless many men go to college today who do not profit by their opportunities. But the task of judging them must be left to posterity. One Emerson will atone for legions of nobodies...
...news that at least two members of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination Society are about to submit voluntarily to small pox infection arouses no thrill of admiration in most readers of the daily prints. It is hard to see just who will profit by the experiment. If the doctors escape the disease after nine days confinement in a penthouse, it will prove that some persons are less susceptible to contagion than others. If they die of the plague, as seems quite likely, it will prove nothing. In neither case, will there be any great advancement of medical science. The contemplated experiment...
...Significance. Mr. Firkins hesitates to suggest Howells as elementary schooling in American life for foreigners or students in the 21st Century. He recommends that they begin on "some inferior writer." Similarly, for persons unacquainted with Howells, Mr. Firkins' finely wrought literary study can be read with profit only after preliminary investigation of Howells' own work and of his other commentators. This book is a last critical word...
...demonstrate the superior quality of their product to sell it. Now they are expected to have a quality product and to sell it cheap. The business, after being a runaway affair, has now become grimly competitive. Big sales mean quantity output, lower costs and a chance for a profit. Small sales mean high unit costs and either no profit or a loss in operation. For small craft, the water is getting rather rough...
...dining room operated by the university, situated in the center of university life, near Harvard Square--possibly on the site of Boylston laboratory--supervised with the same attention to service and quality of food as a good restaurant which operates solely for profit, a place where a student could buy as much or as little food as he wanted with the privilege of charging it on his term bill, would possess decided advantages over any of the eating houses now operating with apparent success...