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...that universities must eventually become self-supporting. At Yale, even with the forthcoming increase, students will still pay less than half the cost of education. At Harvard the percentage paid by the individual must be even smaller. Though the total endowment is much larger than at Yale, the drain of graduate schools and work is greater here...
...price of the Album, as before, will be $9 until March 31, when it will jump to $10. Early subscription is desired by the Committee in order that the number of copies needed may be estimated accurately to avoid excessive drain on the class treasury for extra copies. Subscriptions may be left at Notman's or at Mower...
Watch Mr. Warner when the train leaves the station. He moves unobtrusively through his car?it may be the French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...average Australian male earns $22 a week (as against $30 in the U. S.); and Australians spent over $500 each to put 329,883 men into the World War. Some 300,000 of these suffered casualties, over 50,000 being killed. But even with this vicious drain on her man power and exchequer, Australia has emerged from the War strong and quickening. year and a half ago she weathered a great shipping strike, and through all these growing pains and tribulations has resolutely pushed forward the great project of Canberra...
...Terrible tears that drench and clog and sog* rather than drain...