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...automobiles a canvass of all the farmers in the vicinity of the town and will organize a scheme which will greatly increase the acreage under cultivation throughout the whole neighborhood. As a result the normal crop production will be at least doubled and it is hoped trebled. Seed, fertilizer and labor will, as far as possible, be furnished to all those who are unable to themselves furnish them. The money for carrying out these loans will be raised in the towns...
...generosity of Mr. Harry Hodgson, of Athens, Ga., this annual prize of $25 is given for the best thesis on some business subject. "The Value of Fertilizers in Increasing Crop Production" has been selected as the subject for the essays, but students may write upon "The Marketing of Cotton-Seed Products (oil or cotton-seed meal)," if they so choose...
Eight hundred thousand Serbian women and children will starve unless they can obtain grain for seed and tools to work with next summer. Madame Slavko Grouitch, the American wife of the Serbian under-secretary for foreign affairs, is in the United States to organize a relief expedition, and she wants college men as volunteers to go to Europe with automobiles in June. The automobiles are to be the property of the men who take them out; transportation will be furnished, but the owner must be prepared to meet the expenses of maintenance. In some cases of exceptional ability arrangements...
...list of 14 will soon be complete. "Thus in four years there should be four men in the University from each state, a permanent pledge of the continued democracy of the University, while thereafter there would be graduates returning to every state carrying back the spirit of Harvard, fertile seed for new growth, influence and power...
...power of faith over the lack of it,--that is the vital seed from which, under the strong, sure treatment of Augustus Thomas, springs a drama of race and religion, of prejudice and sacrifice, of hate that would blight and love that can and will save and atone. This drama, the noblest and most intensely provocative of hard thinking that Boston has seen for many days, is called "As a Man Thinks". Into an apparently hopeless turmoil of sin and mental suffering which comes from the faithlessness of a husband and his suspicion of the faithlessness of his wife, into...