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Last year's Freshman class departed somewhat from the customary plan, in that its smoker was held in March, before the spring vacation. This was done in order to lessen the confusion which was bound to be caused by the close proximity of the Jubilee and the vacation. However the class of 1928 will be the first class to hold three smokers...
...lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future leaders in a fashion to lessen, so far as may be, the handicap of the lagging body upon the mind that would go far on the road of progress. --Manchester Union...
...cease and desist from quoting for sale or selling in interstate commerce plates, shapes, bars, or their fabrications (wire, etc.) 1) at Pittsburgh Plus prices; 2) at prices based on any point other than that where the products are manufactured or shipped; 3) at discriminatory prices designed to lessen competition. The Commission referred to the freight charge involved by "Pittsburgh Plus" as "imaginary," indi- cated the hardships upon consumers as resultant from the fact that the Corporation produces nearly 50% of the American rolled steel...
...although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands. Beginning his veto message, the second he had written, by rehearsing the provisions of the Bonus Bill?cash for those who would receive less than $50, 20-year endowment insurance policies for those who, by the length of their service, would receive greater amounts?he continued...
...chief trouble has been indifference on the part of the advisers, indifference arising from the fact that the contact between adviser and advisee is a bit unnatural and therefore unpleasant. The committee has tried to lessen the unpleasantness of the contact, first by assigning to Freshmen upperclassmen whom they already know, and secondly by suggesting to the advisers specific subjects upon which the Freshmen may want advice. The first of these aims was accomplished in only about one half of the total number of cases a situation partly due to the haste of the committee in assigning advisers to Freshmen...