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...general management of the dining room. The real success of the hall, however, depends on the price of board. If this is raised beyond a certain sum many men are obliged to leave, their example is followed by others, and in time a stampede occurs such as nearly proved ruinous to the hall last year...
...latter country it may be said that the conditions are vitally different from those of Germany, and because it has proved a success in the one is no reason why it should in the other. For instance in France direct personal suffrage involved the country in a ruinous revolution. In England no one claims that by a system of limited suffrage the political freedom of the people is in any degree curtailed. Moreover in Germany no salaries are paid the members of the Reichstag, which is the body directly representative of the interests of the common people. This...
...order to change the ruinous law lately passed against playing professionals, says the Princeton correspondent of the N. Y. Post, it is further necessary for a repeal to pass the board of trustees only, as it has passed the faculty already. They stipulate, however, that the university nine may play but four nines of the league, and in Princeton only...
...must keep prominently before people's eyes at any cost; for so long as you are notorious there is some hope of your becoming famous. Above all, keep trying. You will sometimes feel like relaxing for a moment, and saying or doing something natural. Don't! It would be ruinous. The chances are ten to one you would say something commonplace, and that's a cardinal sin, you know. Above all, keep trying...
...summer's temples ruinous...