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...reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes to make up a suit for which we pay $80.00 the difference goes to the middlemen...
...means so much to Germany as to make the result of the plebiscite a definite factor in the reparations settlement. On that settlement hinges the economic future of Europe. And from the results of the previous plebiscites held in West and East Prussia, it appears that Silesia will follow suit in desiring a German annexation...
...which so many Harvard men face the world, listening anxiously to the "other fellow's opinion about us. But if we are to criticise Harvard fairly, it might be wiser to search for the underlying philosophy of this University, rather than to measure its fallings by standards created to suit the ideals of other colleges. It has become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply...
When I returned from France, after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary...
...order to eliminate the expense of shipping the university shells from the Western colleges," says Coach Rice, "a standardized shell could be built, of which the Regatta Association would own five or six. These could be loaned to the various crews by lot with the rigging adjusted to suit the eight's own boat. In size and weight the shells would be identical...