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...proved the advantage of the new scheme from the point of view of efficiency and has given encouraging indications of its success financially. Here to or the duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance, caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. According to the Budget plan the Student Council will bill the individual student the amount designated on his pledge at the end of November...
...Barnes '27 last spring. "Hitherto," the report says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...
...Forbes of the Potash Importing Co. of America, the U. S. agents of the German participants immediately sprang to defend his principles: "The German Potash Syndicate has absolutely prevented any possibility of the potash market being cornered to the detriment of the farmer. Prices have been maintained at the lowest level consistent with the costs of production and marketing. . . . The syndicate has never restricted potash production...
...iron with apparent comfort. Dr. McGovern suggested that the Negro might have been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without injury to his bare feet which were rubbed with salt...
Another factor to consider is that competition really is a detriment to a good shot putter. In some events the athlete can do better work when the competition is keen. In running events it is an asset to be keyed up, but that does not apply to the shot put. Look back over the records and you will find that the best marks have been made when the mental strain was lacking. It does not necessarily follow that a man is a poor competitor when he fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which...