Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting on the success of the project Mr. Morse made this statement. "At first Harvard had planned that if 300 dozen dishes could be sold, the preliminary expense of making copper plates and sketches could be covered, but sales have run so far in excess of this estimate that the profits will pay for Harvard's own equipment of plates and perhaps more...
...livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...sets." While Mr. Rockefeller was preparing for the banquet his father, aged 88, was enroute to his winter home in Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice: "A smile is the greatest thing in life. There is nothing like a smile to bring cheerfulness, and the world would be worth but little were there no smiles...
...cheeriest part of his report was his statement on the condition of agriculture since July of this year. Said he: "Advance has been particularly conspicuous in the case of cotton as a result of a much reduced crop. As the prices of other commodities had meantime declined somewhat, the relative position of farm products has materially improved. On a pre-war basis the index for them now stands quite as high as the average for nonagricultural articles." Textile manufacture has also improved...
...latter part of Mr. Lane's comment is an excellent statement of the liberal policies of circulation which the Library has maintained. The confidence in general honesty displayed by the authorities has in a large measure been responsible for the efficient service of the institution. Having been granted a certain freedom the average student feels more or less obliged to prove himself worthy of the bequest. A further test of his worthiness will be found in the post-holiday weeks...