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...while clubs like Stylus, K.G.X., and Alpha Phi Sigman dropped from the College roster, the more established clubs retrenched. With the beginning of the war and the occupation of the College by the navy, however, additional read-justment was necessary. The Hasty Pudding was converted to an Officer's Club, the Signet, Harvard's undergraduate literary society, turned its building over to the Red Cross. Again, it was only the active and loose-fisted alumni that pulled many of the final clubs through the three-year occupation by the military. With the end of the war and the upsurge...
...About ten-years later he was sent to Manhattan to open a telegraphic news bureau for the San Francisco news paper which employed him. No success, he brooded about poverty. The result was Our Land Policy, published in 1871, setting forth his solution for social malad justment. Eight years later this idea was expanded, became his famed Progress & Poverty. The time was propitious, found a public in the U. S. and abroad troubled by what Author George stated thus: "It is true that disappointment has followed disappointment, and that discovery upon discovery, and invention after invention, have neither lessened...
...University bureau of business research, acting with the co-operation and financial assistance of the National Dry Goods Asociation, after a pioneer survey of doing business in department stores, has come to the conclusion that a read-justment of operating expenses is necessary to restore net profit to normal in this business. The average net profit realized in the department store trade in 1921 was 1.3 per cent, of net sales, which is considered too small. The bureau also discovered that a rapid rate of stock-turn is fully as important in department stores as in other businesses...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...teams after the third trial debate which will be held in Dane Hall on Friday evening, the subject being the same as for the University debate: "Resolved, That the present distribution of power between the federal and state governments is not adapted to modern conditions, and calls for read-justment in the direction of further centralization." At this final trial, Lewis, Nussbaum and Stern will defend the affirmative; and Davis, Rosenblum and Sharfman will argue the negative...