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...reducing expenses by 150 dollars a week. But if, after the stoppage of so serious a leakage, prices still remain high, there would seem to be a possibility that other leakages as yet undetected may still exist. If the board tell us that improvement is impossible, it is tantamount to saying that the Randall bequest was something of a white elephant, because many of us were better off at Foxcroft last year. Personally I have ceased to nurse the delusion that board can be obtained at Randall at a rate appreciably lower than elsewhere. Many men keep their bills down...
Theosophy asserts the existence of a primeval teaching, tantamount to a revelation, yet deduced from fact and experience. This teaching is known to certain choice souls, is preserved by them, and though at times obscured in different nations, is handed down through the generations of mankind. It runs through science and all religions, and shows a single underlying basis, of which the various phases it exhibits are but variants...
...never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...