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...practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into new investments and repeating the process ad infinitum. Thus coal costs 69,000 times its pre-War cost. Wages paid by Stinnes before the War were 17 cents an hour. Under the present scale wages are between seven and ten cents per hour, thus halving his pre-War costs of production...
...back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become a genteel trade school? But there need be no cause for alarm; at the end of his college career the average student will agree that the graduate schools should be increased to infinitum if need be, but that the college itself must be guarded from the commercialization of culture...
...over the country; yet some Harvard men have never given even the most cursory examination to the invaluable Comparative Zoology exhibit or the Ware collection of glass flowers. Hundreds of students daily climb the main stairway of Widener, but comparatively few ever think of the Treasure Room. Examples ad infinitum might be cited to show how pitifully unresponsive undergraduate sometimes are to the unique resources of Harvard...
...only way production can be maintained, and this he has failed to do. In striving to keep up the production of the industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output to 25 percent of the normal. The absurdity of his last scheme--that of using the water powers of the Ural...
...voting today will be interpreted in many different ways. There will be a discussion of its sectional significance, of the point of view of the large and of the small college, and so on, ad infinitum. The forms in which the questions are submitted on the ballot are necessarily imperfect--it would not be possible to draw up a ballot representing all shades of opinion in the country--and will be construed by various factions in various ways. But on the real issue--Treaty or no Treaty--there can be no mistaking the verdict...