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...They would have to be of mature judgement and whole have to be of mature judgement and wide knowledge within their own field. The cost of obtaining such men would be very large indeed. Certain members of the division are not yet convinced that the results would justify the outlay...
...formal financial report of the Chicago Opera Company's season just past gives interesting figures. The box office took in $984,207- $68,091 more than its receipts for the year before. The outlay was $1,335,925. Net loss, $351,718. In New York the Metropolitan Opera Company made a handsome profit...
...inland waterways of Russia with a view to forming a direct service between the Baltic Sea in the North and the Caspian Sea in the South. It is stated that the new route, which will follow the River Volga most of the way, will need only a small outlay for the purpose of deepening canals and small waterways...
...prefer to continue until bed-time; and those who left would be replaced by others who had early-evening engagements and chose, to put in an hour or two of study afterward. The University, eager as it is to encourage study by any possible means, will find the extra outlay valuable from that point of view, and gratefully received by the students...
...cost of the evening's pleasure is a matter purely optional with the man; of course his original outlay of ten dollars may be greatly augmented by dinner, theatre, and dance, or the "first cost practically the last" if he deems himself a conversationalist of sufficient ability to make an evening of movies attractive. The social worker actuated entirely by charitable motives will of course govern her preferences by her escort's pocket-book; and, after seeing everything in New York in the service of mankind will be a most capable "What's what in New York", able to suggest...