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...society endeavors to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body by the example and activity of those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments. The criterion of election is always the candidates scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
...case of "The Bat", everyone who has seen "The Cat and the Canary" has to conspire to keep the cat in the bag, so the action must remain an impenetrable secret, so far as the Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce...
Undoubtedly his optimism is justified if only his own Company were taken as a criterion. Mr. Parsons estimated Woolworth sales for 1923 at $180,000,000, compared with a gross of $167,000,000 for 1922. The Company has no bonded indebtedness; it retired last February 100,000 shares of preferred stock at 125 by paying out $12,500,000; also, during 1922 the item of "goodwill" in its statement was reduced from $50,000,000 to $30,000,000 by the use of $20,000,000 from profit-and-loss surplus...
...underlying purpose of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
...power of motive as an influence upon man's actions, giving as examples the life of Henry Forsett, and an incident in the life of Lincoln. He urged that college men should take as their guiding motives honesty, purity, unselfishness and love and that they make those ideals their criterion...