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...eliminate the present is usually referred to in polite circles as "planning for the future." A lot of "planning for the future" goes on at Harvard. And I'm not against all of it. But I do worry about the present which, after all, can't be all that worthless since it used to be the future a little while ago. In fact, when you think about it, the present has one or two advantages over the future. For instance, we're all in it together. And then too, though you can't know everything even about the present, there...
...Band should be immediately reorganized; the mass-meetings in the Union should begin now; there ought to be frequent processions of the College to the practice; and there should be cheering and singing of the right sort at practice and at every game. The cheering Saturday was well-nigh worthless.... "--Ed.) Monday, October...
...parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served...
Spirits Glass. By that time, Distillers had raised its offer to $12 million. That stilled the critics briefly-until they realized that inflation had virtually made the amount worthless in real terms than the $7,000,000 the company had offered to pay in 1969. Distillers tried again, offering to increase the amount to $26 million if the government would grant it some tax relief. Alert critics pointed out that the company was really offering the same $12 million, and asking the taxpayers to foot the bill for the remaining $14 million...
...Navy has shelled out about $1.7 million to a small Long Island subcontractor named Gap Instrument Inc., by purchasing new issues of the company's preferred stock. The Navy is now the single largest stockholder in the company, but its shares appear for the moment to be almost worthless; they carry no voting power and cannot be resold commercially...