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...added, however: " Great as is the United States Government, and best in the world though it is, it is still not good enough for us nor good enough for those who are to come after, and under the law we are here to contribute our share to make it still better...
...total membership of the Freshman class has now increased to 1024", he declared, "and the number of men that can be admitted to the Freshman Dormitories, including Shepard and Drayton, is still 553. That leaves almost 500 men who will be unable to share in all the activities of Freshman life. But although these men will be denied the privilege of living in the Freshman Dormitories, they will still be able to take their meals at the Freshman Dining Halls and to participate in the interdormitory sports...
...should command the labor of a nation; yet it helped Sam Gompers to his high place. The cigar-makers worked better when their minds were busy. So they arranged for one of their number to read to them while they worked, making their own cigars and an equal share for the reader. Sam Gompers became a favorite reader. Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words. It also brought him a wide contact with English literature, to which he added a knowledge of the works of English and German economists...
...Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, 25 years a Queen, intimated to the Minister of Finance, Jonkheer Dr. R. J. de Geer, that she and her mother, Dowager Queen Emma (65) will share in a proposed cut in the salaries of State officials. The Queen receives 600,000 guilders ($241,200) from the civil list and an allowance of 50,000 guilders ($20,100) for the maintenance of the Royal palaces, as well as the revenue from her private estates, and the income from the large private fortune of the House of Orange...
...hand at the present time and the extensive program of that department must be seriously curtailed unless the funds are forthcoming from the present drive. The entire quota of $4000 will have to be raised by Tuesday night if the social service work is to receive the full share planned for it in this year's budget...