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...made of "A Vindication of Warren Hastings"--a review of G. W. Hastings's book by W. G. T. F., who is convinced that Mr. Hastings has made out his case; for the reviewer concludes with an expression of the hope that future editors of the Macaulay essay may profit considerably by Mr. Hastings's monograph...
...average of about 20 cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution to those purchasers who are members. Sales...
Obviously the distribution in this way of tickets for three games will entail additional expense. It is unlikely that this additional expense will account for the extra profit which will be made with the price of admission thus advanced. In making the burden of financial support of athletics heavier, in one direction, the Athletic Association may reasonably be expected to lighten it somewhere else. We suggest the abolition of subscriptions as a most welcome relief...
...Each separate work will be preceded by a concise introduction; and notes and glossaries will be provided whenever they seem likely to increase the reader's enjoyment and profit...
...College Courses" affords racy reading. We can imagine the reader sitting with the elective pamphlet in one hand saying, "Who is it that gives Abyzsinian 29 which is conducted in an insipid way, although the lecturer has great ability?" We wish that we could hope that instructors might profit by the exceeding multitude of conflicting counsels: "When he cried, 'Steer to starbord, but keep her head to larbord,' What on earth was the helmsman...