Word: evenements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...effect: "Hold, hold. These whom you criticise are members of the Faculty endorsed by the President and Fellows. How could you get a more perfect set of men or a better plan?" Now it is submitted that because the Corporation considers a man fit to instruct in Engineering or even to be in the English department it does not thereby recommend him as an expert in seismology or for president of the steel trust or even as an average acute business man. And then, in Thursday's CRIMSON, another director, the President, in defense of his failure to allow...
...that condition to arise. Finally, he urges that a corporation should be formed because the Society often buys "for cash and on thirty days" and therefore large bills are frequently due. Perhaps he is not aware that out in the real business world "cash" includes payment within thirty or even sixty days. In fact all the directors seem to be under the impression that an organization cannot transact business unless it is under exact legal liability at every point. They forget, or do not know, that modern business is done on credit and not on legal liabilities. A student under...
...purchases on a cash basis--wisely, in order to secure the maximum discount. Practically its only outstanding obligations, therefore, are its leases, and its realizable assets, its stock, are vastly in excess of these liabilities. In proportion to its business it is probably more sound financially than even the Memorial Hall or Randall Hall Dining Associations, excellent institutions as they are. The Directors now propose that this very successfully managed co-operative organization be discontinued, for the new form of organization is co-operative neither in form nor in effect. It is unfortunate that the co-operative principle should...
...receive their stock not to make personal profit out of the business, whose interests are closely bound with those of the students, who are peculiarly subject to popular opinion, and finally who are under the control of the President and Fellows of Harvard University, would do anything dishonest or even contrary to the wish of a majority of the ticket holders...
...bridge, under the coaching of Mr. Higginson. Here the crews were started for a mile stretch down-stream. At first the second crew drew ahead until they led the first crew by half a length, but when both eights put the stroke up slightly, the first gained again, finishing even with the second...