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...maintain his power is by protecting the people in the rewards of their individual efforts. This, too, is the only way production can be maintained, and this he has failed to do. In striving to keep up the production of the industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output...
...circumstance could be the deluding element in a choice of college. For unless he has violent prejudice for Harvard he may have arrived at the point of neutrality in his estimate of several collages, and then it is the pounding of small factors, perhaps mostly unconsciously, that strengthen or weaken his regard for Harvard. Altho in the actual choosing of a college a student may weigh only the greater elements for or against a school, it often happens that previous to that process the smaller elements have built up an attitude of mind--predilection for a certain college--which...
...backed him in November, many of them because they felt his imprisonment unjustified after the need for it was past. At large, he can do no harm that he cannot do while at Alanta. Clemency to a man who is willing to suffer for his sincere beliefs could never weaken the force of the law in the eyes of the nation at large...
...footwork of Fitts and the agility of Pallo were the features of the game, and their combination play was dazzling. Captain Tolbert used his size to very good advantage in breaking up Amherst's forward rushes. MsLeish and Chase, sent in for the second half, did not seem to weaken the team's playing. The game was well attended and enthusiastic. UNIVERSITY AMHERST. Fitts, McLeish, r.f. l.g., Palmer (captain) Pallo, l.f. r.g., Snider Tyson, Fitts, c. c., Lee, Lamberton, Stewart Feiring, Chase, r.g. l.f., Hill, Card, Wray Tolbert (captain), l.g. r.f., Seyler Hill, Tyler...
...which will make for the best team work. However, Coach-Fisher is extremely lucky to have men of such equally high calibre to choose from, and it is evident to anyone who saw the Brown game, that the substitution of any of the second string men will not materially weaken the team...