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...usually one of the prominent lawyers and the chief of police a capable disciplinarian. But before a citizen can be a lawyer, he must pass a strenuous bar examination. Those who are successful in business eat at the costly restaurants run by their fellow citizens, while the poor must forego deserts and cakes and eat at cheap lunch rooms...
...probably fairly good, but certainly no better that, if as good as, that of other Cambridge restaurants. The sole advantage which Memorial can boast is a lower rate, and that is not enough. For there is scarcely any undergraduate at the University who is forced to financial circumstances to forego all other advantages for the sake of the lower rate. The one suggestion left to make is that the way to the undergraduate's heart lies rather through his palate than through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising the rates high enough...
...notch position in the Eastern Division of the U. S. A. H. A. St. Paul is leading the Western Division, so that steel should flash in much fast work tonight. Manager George V. Brown has scheduled the double-header for 8.15 o'clock, but Harvard will have to forego its customary first chance at the ice and be content with the second half of the draw, as the St. Paul and Hockey Club players will be the first to answer the whistle...
...months, when life here is almost unbearable, would let members by that much escape the excessively high cost of living here; would give them that much more time to pass either among their constituents or in getting elsewhere that rest and recreation they now must so considerably forego, the lack of which may fairly be held responsible for the increase in the deathrate among members and the impairment of the working powers of those who survive...
...International Golden Rule Sunday was suggested by the International Near East Association at its conference in Goneva last September. The plan as there adopted provides that individuals and families throughout the world will forego their usual varied meal and give the difference in cost to the Near East Relief. Americans will feel especially the contrast between their fare and that of the child of Asia Minor, for the Golden Rule dinner follows close upon Thanksgiving...