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...university, and the remainder proceed directly from high school to their chosen vocation, for which no special training may be necessary. It hardly seems, therefore, either that there is a genuine need for any new type of institution, or that existing college standards need be lowered. Those who can profit by a college education are well able to meet the present requirements...
...have a look at the barn. He said he was possessed of occult powers, but after looking over the bewitched building, he shook his head gravely-very gravely, so gravely that the peasant sold it at a ridiculously low figure. The tailor resold at a magnificently high profit. The story came out in court, but the tailor and those to whom he sold were acquitted...
Amid the flood of annual corporate statements for 1923, here and there reports of industry and trade during 1924 are beginning to appear. In general they show a tendency toward increased sales competition and diminishing margin of profit that were predicted by some students of business at the beginning of the year...
...undergraduate mind the entire machinery of "cut pro" might be discarded as unnecessary. Modern man, says Adam Smith, is essentially economic; and he undoubtedly included college students in that category. All that is necessary to make the economic man act is to indicate clearly what course will profit him most pecuniarily; cutting of expensive lectures is not conducive to such profit...
...result of its acquisition of American Brass. Except for its newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah or Miami, the lower costs of production make present copper prices more profitable...