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...immigration laws. The superseded law placed a premium on pushing in as soon as the clock struck twelve for the beginning of a new immigration year. The present law says : "Get a certificate before you start and come over at your leisure." The result is less rush, less hardship, less danger...
...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...
...position of President of the New York Stock Exchange is one of the highest and most responsible posts in American finance. It carries no salary, compels the holder largely to give up his business as a broker on the Exchange floor. This hardship has recently been lessened by allowing a partner of the Pres.dent to take care of his buying and selling duties there; this is the only case where any one not the owner of a Stock Exchange "seat" can engage in dealings on its "floor." In recent years it has been customary to reelect a new Exchange President...
...artist himself-there is no obvious reason why his work should end up exactly at seventy-five thousand words-and it is undoubtedly a hardship if the publisher holds out a standardized novel which everyone must imitate. Certainly this provides no stimulus for individual experimentation or for the development of new literary forms. But again, one must remember that experiments may prove costly to the publisher, and that the standardizing of sizes inevitably results in cheaper production and probably works to the public good. How these conflicting interests may be reconciled is not at once apparent...
...Harvard--and Yale too--is under the handicap of not having the sturdy raw material from the farms. But that obstacle can be surmounted--hence the running outdoors at present. Hardship and sacrifice bring out a man's ingenuity, and power. In aiming for a victory over Yale we have a job cut out for us that will take everything we can put into...