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...more likely of fulfilment. Not only is the rate for mark exchange swiftly approaching the zero point, but the conditions responsible for this sensational decline grow worse instead of better. At first the Reichsbank inflated its currency by the millions each week; next, the weekly increases of Reichsbank notes crept up into billions; now, the inflation is proceeding by the trillion each week. The last Reichsbank statement showed that the altogether unparalleled increase of over 1½ trillion marks, or 10% of the existing note circulation, had been made...
...crying need for reform among the capitalist infested railroads. Only a week ago he was forced hurriedly to leave Providence. He managed to board the Federal for New York unnoticed and, finding unoccupied a section reserved for one of the vice-presidents of the road, he crept in and pulled together the curtains...
...this point, however, Mumford raised the beat still higher and the third crew crept up in short order. Coming out from the bridge they were even with the seconds and the relative positions did not change a fraction from then to the finish which came about an eighth of a mile beyond Harvard bridge...
...change of standard, accomplished like a ukase with a stroke of the pen, but the gradual shifting of some six hundred individual points-of-view. When first established, the free elective system seemed the magic formula which was going to bring about this composite metamorphosis, but the abuses which crept in with this formula made it evident that some revision was necessary. The present system of regulated choice of electives, substituted instead, has not so far accomplished the desired change, but, grafted to it the tutorial system, still too new to be fairly judged, holds the greatest promise...
Abuses such as this have crept in, until the privilege of allowing one man to sign for both himself and partner is in danger of being abrogated. Even seniors, and members of the team have played the game of "seeing how much they can get away with". Nevertheless the time limit of a single half hour during the afternoon is for the benefit of the majority, and has been proved necessary. The University authorities have shown themselves ready to adjust rules to the convenience of the student, as yesterday, when the time for signing for courts was changed...