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There are, however, certain ends towards which the Society has striven with success that can be more or less accurately measured. Year by year it has become more and more the satisfactory servant of Harvard students, as shown by its steadily increasing membership and volume of business. It has assumed all the aspect of a big business without losing effectiveness in its co-operative capacity. It has become as large, as all other college co-operatives together, at the same time serving as their model. And if the new office of Managing Director, filled by a man taken directly from...
...work which Professor Carver will take up will be a continuation of the study begun last year of the marketing and distributing of farm products. The Department of Agriculture has striven to advance methods of production and to facilitate the marketing of the products raised; the present movement is to take up rural organization and co-operation to secure the best results for a community. Secretary Houston believes that in the interest of economy and of the advancement of agriculture the time has come to give particular attention to this rural organization...
...take the step at any time. Whether or not the deplorable opposition of a few men is to be allowed to ruin an exceptional opportunity is uncertain. One united literary magazine to supplant two that are necessarily in a state of constant competition is an ideal to be striven for, and, it is to be hoped, one to be attained. PHILIP W. THAYER...
...meaning is large and high. Mr. Lippmann interprets Mr. Granville Barker with vigorous admiration. Mr. Spring tells a tragic story with a touch not always sure but with evidence of power. Mr. Seligmann contributes a light ghost story--humorous in sports--the point of which I have striven to feel or to perceive. The editorial articles are a graceful recognition of the Monthly and a hearty tribute to President Lowell...
...Salvation Army, was accepted by Mrs. Fiske, several months ago. The leading part, taken by Mrs. Fiske, is that of a drudge in a saloon on the Bowery, upon which, on Christmas night, the curtain rises. As usual in her mounting of a play, Mrs. Fiske has striven to make setting and action atmospheric...