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...each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital and goods. And this surplus must be due to the superior...
...example, has a library to every 2,700 persons. The neighboring states of Massachusetts and Connecticut furnish a library to every 3,134 and 3,479 persons respectively. California, Colorado, Wyoming and Michigan stand well up on the list. The Southern States, as might be expected, make the worst showing, Arkansas bringing up the rear with one library to every 50,158 of population...
...aspects in a very fair and impartial manner, it seems to us, taking into consideration that the affair is discussed from a Harvard standpoint. Our position here has been such that at times we have felt as injured parties generally do - that we have had the worst of several disputes, and for our voice in the matter we think Yale does not wish to complicate herself in any more schemes which possibly may result to her disadvantage. Sport is broad, and the fairness and impartiality which inspires other branches of our greater universities should be cultivated in the athletic department...
Pretentious things are not always the best, nor are small things the worst; the Greek gem is far more truly a work of art than the nineteenth century plaque. This is the case with the February "Monthly," where by far the best two things are the little epigrammatic verses, "Ben Jonson and the Stage," by F. S. Palmer, and "Landor," by H. S. Sanford, These are at the same time highly finished and pointed melodious and witty. Mr. Palmer has produced little better than this in all his previous writings...
...these arguments is plainly weak. It is easy to see that an instructor might find several examination books (say, for example, four) the difference in worth between any two of which might not exceed one per cent., yet of which the best clearly belonged in class a, the worst in class b. He must then decide into which class to put the two intermediate books. Whether he puts both in a, both in b, or one in each of these classes, he has to make a distinction quite as fine as any under the old system. The result, however...