Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dropped Freshmen, according to the announcement yesterday, will not be admitted to the Houses. This policy has been adopted because only some of the dropped Freshmen secure regular tutorial instruction, and, of those who do, very few can profit from such instruction because of the lack of background for independent work and also the fact that most of their time must of necessity be given to establishing satisfactory records in courses in order to remain in College. Also many of the dropped Freshmen, because of deficiencies, are carrying five or six courses which leaves little time for tutorial work. Since...
Dropped Freshmen, according to the announcement yesterday, will not be admitted to the Houses. This policy has been adopted because only some of the dropped Freshmen secure regular tutorial instruction, and, of those who do, very few can profit from such instruction because of the lack of background for independent work and also the fact that most of their time must of necessity be given to establishing satisfactory records in courses in order to remain in College. Also many of the dropped Freshmen, because of deficiencies, are carrying five or six courses which leaves little time for tutorial work. Since...
Although last week's vote assures consummation of the deal it does not remove two ugly thorns from Gillette's venerable hide. First of these thorns is the widespread knowledge that Gillette's reported profits for the past several years were not all real profits. Sales to foreign subsidiaries were billed at prices just under the U. S. market price, apparently for the purpose of letting the profit fall to the U. S. company at once to avoid high foreign income taxes. If all the razors and blades sold to subsidiaries had been resold to the foreign...
...York Stock Exchange last week copper shares, long since pounded into sprawling recumbence by reduced dividends and vanishing margins of profit, suddenly whipped out of their lethargy, soared in a manner reminiscent of the 1928 and 1929 bull markets. Probably a sleeping short interest added vigor to the move. But ultimately behind it was a curious, daring action on the part of the copper producers...
...book is entitled "Universities--American, English, and German." It attacks not only Harvard but Columbia and the University of Chicago for trying to sell education at a profit. Flexner holds that English universities are seats of higher learning incomparably better than anything America has to offer...