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...experiment which bids well to be of the latter, scarcer class, one destined to live and flourish in Harvard, is the newly reorganized Student Council, Reduced in size by one-half, its manner of election radically changed, it retains scarcely a vestige of resemblance to the Councils of forme3r years. There is hope it retains none of their sluggish in activity...
Good Programs Get Scarcer- Money the Root of the Evil...
...spirit of the piece is sustained in the direction and the titling. Example: "In the days of '49 mails were scarce and females scarcer...
...from getting a reasonable return on their money. Of all enterprises, the Railroads are the only ones at the present moment which cannot increase their prices proportionally to their expenses. And when by the Adamson law the hours of labor have been cut down, when labor itself is ever scarcer and ever higher paid, and when at the same time coal, steel, and other commodities are soaring in price, a net loss will be inevitable, if the railroads' revenues cannot be increased...
...Jusserand in his speech pointed out that the exchange of learned men dated back to the earliest times, when printed books were as yet unheard of and writings a scarcer commodity than men. The institution of the University of Paris gave an enormous impetus to this work. Paris became the gathering place of the scholars of the world, whence the knowledge and teachings of the most learned men were disseminated to all corners of civilization. Then came a great revolution, the discovery of printing. Now men became a scarcer commodity than the printed book, and the exchange of men diminished...