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...exist. Last year, whether intentionally or not, the farmers of the country were led to expect that the prices which were in effect at that time would continue through the present year, and as a result, they paid prices for their labor and material which would allow them a profit only if these pirces did continue. Now, however, the nations of Europe cannot afford to buy our surplus, and as a result of this overproduction, food prices in the United States have been greatly reduced and the farmers find that they cannot sell their produce at a profit...
...their problems are not merely technical, but also in large measure labor and management problems. There are great opportunities for scientifically trained men in the administrative field of the great industrial and engineering undertakings. And the School has recently inaugurated two undertakings intended to fit its students better to profit by such opportunities; namely, industrial cooperation, and five-year programs in engineering and business...
...wave the flag, make the "eagle scream," and are most volubly interested in the preservation of "personal liberty" are the gentlemen engaged in illicit liquor peddling and their idea of the "pursuit of happiness" which is guaranteed by the constitution goes very little farther than the privilege of profit...
...Owen '23 and Humphrey are favored for defense players. The former seems potentially one of the shiftiest cover-points the Crimson has had, but both will profit immensely by the personal instruction dealt out by Alfred Winsor '05, who was assisting at practice again yesterday...
There can be no doubt that a college gains by judicious advertising, just as any business gains. Yale and Princeton seized the opportunity of doing the best possible advertising through their under graduates and graduates during the Christmas vacation, and one must credit them with a profit on the balance-sheet. Harvard gained nothing by liberating. The University does not wish to conduct an advertising campaign in a commercial manner, but it should not refuse to extend its influence where it can. It is conservatism carried to a harmful degree to imagine that a good name and fame are spread...