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...Another time-worn argument of the foreman used to be when a man protested a price that 'it covered the man who did the job previously for that price and who made good money on it,' which was true. But we found at the time the representative entered on the scene, that there was another factor which had often been overlooked, namely, the type of machine that the price had been set on. It might have been a lathe job and timed on a certain lathe and the operator who was protesting against the price was doing...
Boston, affirms a time-worn jest, is not a place but a state of mind. If this be so,--and some foundation must exist for the adage,--the query next follows: what is this state of mind? Intellectual, many will reply; Puritanical, others may suggest; or unbalanced, the sarcastic might intimate. But judging a cross-section of the populace--as exhibited at the theatre, for example--one receives the impression that the true state is irresponsible levity...
This success is due largely to the type of program that the Club offers. Breaking away, for the most part, from the time-worn college Glee Club rah-rah program, the organization presents selections from the greatest of modern choral numbers. It caters to the taste of true music lovers and endeavors to raise the standards of male choral work in the West, thus doing for the Coast what Harvard has done for the East. For its popular concerts it has prepared a program of lighter numbers and carries with if soloists, stunt men, and a complete college orchestra. This...
...material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years" is at hand, and therein is to be found no chance for "shifts...
...Rossetti. Both show imagination, the second especially has some excellent lines. "The Song of the Revolutionist" by A. Davis '07 has a good galloping rhythm, and "O I'll be there at the Merrymaking" by R. J. Walsh '07 has enough human tenderness to make us forget the time-worn theme...