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...asking for articles on the moulders of public opinion, it should be suggested that there is room for comment on the heavy editorialization of the Hearst Metrotone News Reels. Another important influence that will probably grow in power in the next few years and tend in some ways to supplant the newspapers is the radio. But in the meanwhile, in waiting for Mr. Villard or some other qualified writer to offer information and intelligent reflections on these problems, you will benefit from reading the slightly less than 100 pages that make up this pamphlet...
...Flying Club has made plans to purchase a new training ship, which is to be delivered early in March. The aeroplane, which is a Travelair Trainer, has two cockpits, double controls, and is powered by a Curtis Wright Gypsy motor. It will supplant the Gypsy Moth which is now being used for training members who have not yet passed their license tests. The club owns another machine, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is now being used for cross-country work. The new one will be kept with the others either at the Boston airport...
...fine time to supplant the idle question 'How's business?' with 'Where's business?' Better than that, take a good, unwishful, morning-after look at your product, your sales plans, yourself. Is the commodity you make and hope to sell, styled, finished, priced to present needs-if your market knew the facts about it would it sell itself? Is your selling-energy out full-limit, are your sales and advertising plans extraordinarily gauged to extraordinary resistances-or are you cutting the power just as you are trying to make the hill? . . . [The Saturday Evening...
...people who have passed through the city since then. Its musty records show that it transported Lincoln and Douglas, likewise show that General Grant usually had two trunks, Sarah Bernhardt 40. Once when an epidemic destroyed most Chicago horses, Parmelee turned to oxen. Only in 1919 did motor coaches supplant the horse-drawn vehicles that swayed for so many years through Chicago's crosstown streets. A special bus, No. 55, is known as "The Presidential Coach" and is always kept ready...
...various checks and balances, avoid either of these extremes. Little is safe to predict other than that the housing quarters will be newer than the present dormitories, the Yard will no longer be the center of domiciliary attraction, the restaurants on the Square will lose money, the Houses will supplant the classes in intra-mural rivalry, the members of the undergraduate body and the faculty will be in a more favorable position for the development of mutual understanding, and real estate prices on the Charles will rise...