It Never Pays to Reproach Your Employer
A reflective voice argues that workers blame foremen as a source of stagnation and promotes self improvement. It recounts a worker who believed every master harbored a grudge against him, leading to a fatalism about promotions and a life in a benevolent asylum. The piece urges readers to examine their own reasons for career stalls and considers lessons from a dinner of retired businessmen who plotted better uses of talent.
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Fio
Tryig
Everyony
Fortune Award for Cure of Consumption Enshrined in Will
The will of Sir John Bean, famed physician and scientist, leaves a fortune of £1000 a year in personal profits to the finder of a genuine cure for consumption, with a £35,000 in Government stock prize. A British subject must prove a cure that heals at least seventeen of twenty cases, as judged by a committee of the College of Physicians and the British Medical Council, and satisfy the will’s second stage requirements.
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Sir John Bean
College of Physicians
British Medical Council
Frightened By Figures In A Curious Courtship Tale
A young English statistician courting a lady tests her with a bizarre arithmetic discourse about daily meals and vast counts. The exchange ends with her fleeing indoors, later marrying a grocer who can barely recite multiplication tables.
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Sbe
Ninselt
Conscience Case of a Regiment in Scottana
A regiment quartered in Scottana faces a disciplinary incident as an expert gymnast guides subalterns to walk across a room on their lands. A stern disciplinarian enters, study in silence, leaves without remark, and punishment is expected next morning. An apology is later offered, the colonel quips that he once misperceived officers upside down after dining with a brother in India.
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Scottana Jad
Inrad
India
Missing Text From Sunday School Dialogue At Resort
A fragmentary dialogue at a fashionable resort features a Sunday school teacher stressing time since the last lesson and a visitor noting an important event. A late guest boasts a sheet of paper as proof of his claim, provoking the surrounding chatter about worth and pride.
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