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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investment. The sale capacity of the house runs into million annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increate this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled by us was a $17,500,00 proposition, and the current one has for its ultimate aim a capitalization of fifty millions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. GRADUATE | 6/16/1919 | See Source »

...millimeter G. P. Filloux rifle of French type has been received by the Department of Military Science and Tactics from the proving grounds at Aberdeen, Maryland. The gun and carriage, which together weigh about twenty-five thousand pounds, were shipped by flatcar, and were unloaded and hauled to the University by one of the Holt tractors which are part of the equipment here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH G. P. F. RIFLE ARRIVES | 6/7/1919 | See Source »

...daily compared with that of publishing a fortnightly or monthly. And it may be noted that a bad joke is only a slight incident in one's mental life, but what one considers a bad editorial leaves a deep irritation. One good joke wipes out the memory of a thousand bad ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

...contrary, one bad editorial wipes out the memory of a thousand good ones. Verily, the penalties for a bad joke are not great; but a bad editorial--beware, and remember what the esteemed new addition to Harvard journalism meted out to Mr. Lodge for a bad speech! As for the comparison made with other dailies, perhaps the Magazine's writer is swept off his feet by the many columns given in those papers to outside news. Would it be wise for the editors of the CRIMSON to compete with Boston papers in this field? The external appearance of the paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

Whenever statistics concerning sacrifices in the war are compiled, the University feels justly proud of the contribution of her sons to this list. The latest reports show that of the six thousand college men throughout the country who gave their lives, two hundred and ninety-seven or nearly three percent were Harvard men. This total was greater than that of any other college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING IN THE AIR. | 5/24/1919 | See Source »

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