Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreigners, and, for law students, free legal advice to the poor. In addition, almost every week in the college year a free entertainment is given in some settlement house. Besides these opportunities to help, other students do their bit by serving on various committees, which, among other things, collect money for the support of the work, old clothes for the poor, and books for the Loan Library...
...annual figures on the cost of doing business have been thoroughly useful during the last five years. I am not certain, however, that with the information now available it is worth while to continue to collect these figures each year. Whether or not that should be done seems to me to be entirely a question for the trade to decide. Be that as it may, I am inclined to believe that the time is now here, or nearly here, when monthly figures on sales, purchases, stocks, and credit conditions would be desirable for the wholesale grocers...
...twenty departments, and by one firm into forty-five departments. There is obviously no standardization of these departmentizing methods, and if any cost accounting is to be undertaken the first step will be to work put a classification of the merchandise and a standardization of departments so that in collecting reports each wholesale grocer will include the same merchandise in each department. Until a substantial number of wholesale grocers have standardized their business in this way, it will be futile to attempt to collect any figures on departmentized sales or expenses...
...attention of all officers of existing school clubs is called to the notice in the notice column in regard to questionnaires sent out last week. The School Club Committee is anxious to collect as much information as possible on the school club situation and asks the cooperation of all officers of undergraduate school clubs. UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL CLUB COMMITTEE...
...publishing the report of the special committee to collect facts regarding the time required of students participating in certain athletic sports the Faculty has entered an entirely new field. While the immediate purpose of the report is to enlighten inquisitive minds as to the effect of athletics on scholastic standing. It is responsible for a result of greater importance than mere facts. For the first time in this history of the College the Faculty has resorted to statistical investigation on a matter of importance; in fact, it is hard to recall any similar far-reaching inquiry at any other large...