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...which made our tasks doubly difficult. We hope that such a situation will never again arise and that each class will follow our example, so that in succeeding years Freshman Executive Committees may look over the reports of those who have gone before, take advantage of their suggestions, and profit by their mistakes...
...attendance at classes and disciplinary measures such as probation will for them cease to exist, and that in the organization and accomplishment of their college work they will be left to themselves; the initiative will be theirs, to use for gaining their education themselves and thus for their greater profit. What supervision may be necessary will be of the "man to man" type offered by the tutorial system...
...primarily for the British working class that Mr. Strachey writes, yet all he says can be read with much profit by the workers of other countries and by so-called intelligensia, from the struggling student immersed in dry text books to the "hardest-boiled" employer of mankind...
...address before the convention-made by Richard M. Neistadt of San Francisco-scored the common practice of holding "anniversary" and other "bargain" sales, as a form of "super-stimulation" which fails of profit, lowers business standards, undermines public confidence. To some extent, Mr. Neistadt declared, clearance sales are a necessary part of merchandising, since no merchant can exactly forecast his requirements and is, therefore, bound to have some goods left over which can be sold at cut prices. But retailers use these goods as a nucleus only; they go out and buy other merchandise to put with them...
...issuance last week of the annual reports of the two leading American chain-store companies- the F. W. Woolworth Co. and the S.S. Kresge Co.-again demonstrated extraordinary profits earned in recent years by this class of merchants. Woolworth last year enjoyed the benefits derived from the splendid profits made in 1922, when net income of $18,324,399 and surplus of $22,038,950 enabled the company to retire its preferred stock, reduce its good will item by $20,000,000 and still have a surplus of $10,663,349. Last year net income set a new record...