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...third meeting in the series of Monday Night Meetings for Freshmen will be held this evening in Smith Common Room from 7 to 7.30. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham '86 of the Arlington Street Church will speak on "First-Hand Impressions of the League". Dr. Frothingham has just returned from Europe, where he had an opportunity to observe closely the work of the League of Nations at Geneva...
...departments is flour. The flour department would have to be charged with its pro rata share of the sales force expense, advertising expense, receiving and handling expense, rent, and so on for each of the other expenses. The basis for prorating would have to be determined after a careful first-hand investigation. Furthermore, there are serious difficulties in the way of prorating expenses in a wholesale grocery business. This is because the largest item of expense are those for sales force and for other salaries. To prorate these expenses properly, it is necessary to estimate the amount of time devoted...
...proposal is to bring there for a period of seven weeks a group of fifty picked students, who will during this time undertake various forms of social service work in preparation for permanent work of this sort after graduation. The object is to give these men experience through first-hand experience in sections of New York where conditions are frequently at there worst. Every man before coming should have attended a student summer conference...
Altogether his Honor found much to amuse and instruct him. Something of the ardor of his Arabian predecessor must have led Mr. Peters to adopt this romantic and effective method of gaining first-hand information. It is so un-American. Perhaps if we could but infuse a little more of this spirit into our other officials, they would gain a clearer insight into the true needs of the people than they often seem to possess...
...Muste, Secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America, and formerly a clergyman, will be the speaker of the evening. Mr. Muste ran the 1919 strike at Lawrence, and he has an original view based on first-hand experience of "The Aims and Methods of the Labor Movement", and this will be the subject of his talk. After his speech there will be an informal discussion open to all members...