Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...embark in it and they are highly surprised if they fail. "To sell a pound of nails or a package of coffee," says Mr. Copeland, "appears so simple that the problems of buying, selling, stock-handling, accounting and managing are over-looked. The general public, on its side, shows its ignorance of these problems by talking lightly of middleman elimination. Although twenty to thirty-five percent. of the price paid by the consumer does goes to the retailer, the services of the latter are far from being dispensable. It is much easier to say that his profit is too high...
Surely, until the advocates of preparedness show some interest in preparing themselves in the most important branch of military service, we many fairly doubt their complete sincerity. E. P. WARNER...
...taskmaster. Moreover, at the end of each year, every honors student will be required to pass an examination upon the honors work of the entire year. In this examination not only will the student's knowledge be tested, but an opportunity will be given him to show that his year's work has developed his powers of judgment...
...military drill. From a moral point of view the drills would teach discipline and order, which are to no small degree lacking in the citizens of this country. Harvard has been accused by outsiders of thinking in the past and heeding little the affairs of the present. Let us show the country that we recognize the present need of a reserve force to protect our, rights and dispel from all minds that hackneyed term "Harvard indifference." MILITARIST...
...complete plans just announced for the Pennsylvania relay races show many departures from the program in past years. The events will be held in Philadelphia on Friday, April '23, and Saturday, April 24, the large number of entries having made it impracticable to run off the entire meet on a single...