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...weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select the one most fitted to his abilities...
...great pyx*-, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
...tyros of the Assay Commission divided into three sub-committees to undertake their tasks. Task No. 1 was to count the contents of sample bags and de termine that the Mints had set aside as required for testing one silver coin out of every 2,000 minted.** Task No. 2, under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh...
...students. Today an adviser is rewarded with "a certain number of meals in the Union". It is a case of the college attempting to get something for nothing, often from the most over-burdened sources. Until the college actively undertakes reform, it will be paid in its own coin...
...coin game can be equipped with a device for disgorging coins, can be regulated by the house as to the percentage paid to players. Some state laws make a distinction between games of "skill" which reward high scores and the old out-and-out slot machine of the lemon & cherry variety. Still manufactured by five companies, including Mills, these can be legally operated only in Florida, Nevada, Maine and South Dakota...