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...truism," said Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17, former President of the CRIMSON, when asked what benefit he had derived from his CRIMSON experience yesterday, "that we go to college to learn. And we go to learn many things that are not to be found in books. Among others we must learn to make the best use of our time...
...survey is borne out by the Dodge figures for awarded building contracts. In October, the latter amounted to $410,000,000, which is 19% over the preceding September, and 14% over October, 1923. Rentals here in general held up fairly well. The landlord must, however, learn one important economic truism. He may hold up high prices for a while, without profit or at a loss to himself. But high prices encourage production, which sooner or later produces an unusable surplus, which in turn reduces prices again. The longer artificially high prices are sustained, the harder will be the eventual smash...
...newspapers are the universities of the people" is a truism to which Horace Greeley gave wide currency, and since his time at has been repeated often, but with lessening conviction. Journals have, it appears, largely ceased to be organs of opinion, they have become organs of selling. The superiority of asbestos over concrete shingles must be impressed upon buyers because the high geared industrial mechanism produces a surplus of goods which must be sold by brute advertising. When advertising is relaxed, is during the printers' strike in New York last year, buying falls off immediately, and the slackening of demand...
...November. From Washington it was last week announced that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is one of those who think that the nations of the world would be more amicable were their ways of weighing and measuring the same. Said Mr. Hoover: "It may well be set forth, as a truism, that it is impossible to maintain proper standards of ethical conduct throughout business and industry without a proper background of recognized physical standards of quality and quantity. Much of the misunderstanding and ill-feeling arising in the course of transactions between producers and consumers can be eliminated...
...same time, the present wave of disbelief and somewhat defiant agnosticism may possibly be due to something besides mental growing pains. To say that present day conditions are a bit out of the ordinary and therefore explanatory of much, is undoubtedly a sickening truism; but like most painfully obvious remarks it is also true, and is something which short sighted critics who are of the elder generation could remember to advantage when flaying their juniors for non-conformity. The church does well which recognizes this abnormality and which goes to those most concerned for suggestions on how best to handle...