Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...twenty-two of the next forty-four in Senior year; and that the additional ten are men whose records have been marred by sickness or other causes not affecting their good character, or men whose worth has been attested by their professors. These clauses are generally understood to mean that it exercises a right of selection according to a man's character and all-round ability from say the sixty-five high stand men in the class. It is understood to elect men somewhat on a basis of character when as a matter of fact it elects them...
...operating expenses, buying expenses, and outlay for sales force, advertising, deliveries, rent, and interest on capital have been computed, together with the highest, lowest, and centering percentage of stock-turns. The last item may be cited as an example of the public importance of this investigation. More stockturns would mean a greater profit without an increase in price, and fundamentally a public economy. In subsequent bulletins the Bureau will give more basic figures, by means of which every shoe retailer will be able to compare his accounts, item by item, with the average accounts of many fellow-traders...
...Thayer '14, himself a writer of no mean ability, and W. C. B., Jr., '14 whatever modest person he is, have both reviewed the Illustrated, perhaps the hardest magazine for a literary person to criticise without losing his temper. They have done better than many of their seniors. Both conclude that it needs more skill in presentation, but that there is a great interest in its subject matter. What grave "assistant" would have stopped with this...
...initial article sets forth the aims of the new editorial board, and they are sensible aims. Without being reactionary, the editors mean to be sanely conservative. They most wisely believe that the readers of the Advocate wish above all else to be interested. They advise writers, in order to interest, to seek material in that "field of experience which stands at the back and call of the average undergraduate." This, by the way, is the least "conservative" use of figurative language in the present Advocate which the reviewer has noted...
...volunteer reserves, and it is for the commanding and training of these reserves that the government is seeking men in the universities. The need has been further accentuated in the late years of territorial extension, for such acquisitions as the Panama Canal, the Philippines, and the Hawaiian Islands mean a drain on the military forces which needs substantial re-enforcement. It has been to supply this backing, therefore, that the students' military camps have been established...