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Bryant University Bryant Digital Repository Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Booster (1925-1929) Collections 2-1927 Volume 4, Number 6, February 1927 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/booster Recommended Citation "Volume 4, Number 6, February 1927" (1927). Booster (1925-1929). Paper 12. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/booster/12 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Collections at Bryant Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Booster (1925-1929) by an authorized administrator of Bryant Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 111t hruury 1927 THE BOOSTER Published the Fifteenth of Each Month by the Students of BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE Providence, R. I. s........... Pri", ® SSe per half-year $1.00 per year ~- Single copies, lOe. Acceptance for mailing special rates of postage provided for in Seetioll 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 17, 192' EDITOR-IN -CHIEF EUGENE R. JACQUES ASSISTANT EDITOR ALVIN J. KEEN ASSOCIATE EDITORS Alumni Editor. HOWARD WHEELOCK Exchange Editor, THOMAS LISI News Editor, EUGENE R. JACQUES Business Topics, HAROLD E. ADAllS Athletic Editor, VINCENT A. CONNORS CLASS REPRESENTATIVES BEATRICE NOAKLEY JAMES O. CAMPBELL ALICE GALL CHESTER E. TURN ELL ELIZABETH TIERNEY ESTHER HAROOTUNIAN CECILIA LAMB BUSINESS MANAGER RICHARD A. TAYLOR ADVERTISING MANAGER BERNARD J. KIERNAN BUSINESS STAFF lAliES MURRAY MATTHEW ANNOTTI VINCENT T. CURRAN GEORGE E. CREATH FACULTY ADVISORS WARllEN C. LANE, C. P. A. JEANNETTE CARROLL CHARLES H. PEASLEY, A. B., A. II. :....'1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 THE BOOSTER February Issue Volume Four FEBRUARY, 1927 Number 6 ;,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111(1j.llllllillhlllllllltlllllll]IIIIlllllmnllllllllll1111111111111111'11111111111'lllilllllnrnmmrnmlllllllllllllll11111111111111111111'lllllllllilllll]111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllnmmllllllrllllllllllllrllirIllrlllllrlllllllllllll!llllj: NOBODY PAYS LOYALTY F course we have all heard how happy the OYALTY is the keynote of success for which OScotchman was when he saw "The Wom L every student in Bryant-Stratton College an Pays" painted on a billboard outside of should strive. It pays big dividends. Everv a theater. A bona fide sales scheme that makes employer wants a loyal worker. He can find one sales without incurring costs to the buyer is per without this quality anywhere but the one who haps destined to be favorably considered by will stick to the end when he has once started many. something never has to look for a job. Here is the plan: The manufacturer find!; A gre~t man once said, "Show me a loyal boy that he can undersell his competitors by using and I wIll show you a great man in the making." the "Nobody Pays" plan of selling because he He was right. Now is the time for us to start can s'e11 directly to the consumer, avoid all sell this habit of loyalty. ing expenses, except advertising, and eliminate Be loyal to your school. Be loyal to The all possible chances of loss on bad debts. He Booster. Be loyal to your athletic teams. 1£ ascertains that he can sell his product at $2.00, they falter, your loyalty is the thing that may say, and make the margin of profit that he de help them. Anyone can be loyal to a successful sires. The merchandise is then advertised at undertaking but when things go wrong, real $2.50. The first customer in his or her locality loyalty is shown by helping instead of complain sends the concern the advertised price and re ing. ceives in return not only the goods but also five There is not a single thing in this school which coupons. would not be aided by your loyal support. The Each of these coupons is worth fifty cents, student who thinks the school i-s capable of im in the instance we are considering, and the cus provements and does nothing to start them, never tomer sells them to his friends at that price. gets very far. Your actions and manners m Each new customer sends his coupon and $2.00 school and in public places are the very means to the factory and the process is repeated. It by which people judge your character. can be s~en that the original customer has patd You can make this school the best of all schools $2.50 for his purchase and that he has realized by backing it wholeheartedly. No school is bet the same amount from the sales of his coupons. ter than its students. You are the school and The holders of the coupons get their money you only can answer for the future of Bryant back in the same way. Stratton College: To be sure, this method of selling for oh,-ious Strive to build up, and try to make Bryant reasons will remain a mail oreler proposition; hut Stratton College better for your presence. Don't we feel sure that as such it is bound to produce lov,er the general average by your actions. Be excellent results.-A. J. K. a loyal booster of the schoo1.-E. R. J. OUR ADVERTISERS HELP YOUR TEAM WIN ELLOW students. there exists in this com T the end of each basketball season there F munity a group of men, probably unknown A is a tendencv to lose interest in athletics, . to you, but nevertheless vitally importa~lt to and to let school spirit take care of its@lf. this publication. These men are our advertisers. The basehall team deserves our support, and we They rent space in this mag-azine in order to must give it. If we are behind our team and put their g-oods before you. They pay us money feel that we won't be heaten, we can't be beaten. that enables us to puhlish this paper for you. What the student body feels. the team reflects. Subscriptions play only a small part in the If every Bryant-Stratton student supports our financing 0f this public<ttion. team, every game, no matter how unimportant, It ha~ always been the policy of The Booster we will have a successful season, and it won't to encourage its readers · to patronize the adver he said that the basehall team of Bryant-Stratton tisers. Thev advertise here because they expect won the game, but that Bryant-Stratton College you to iustify that expense by trading- ''''ith won. A team supported by the whole student them. Patronize them, and when you do, men body is invincible.-E. R. J. tion The Booster. If you prove to them that the money p<1id for their advertisement is not a ONCENTRATE your energie<; towards mak loss, they will return year after year. It is only C ing a success of one thing. If you have too bv their reg-ular return that The Booster can many irons in the fire your specialist com c~ntinue to 'he puhlished every month. petitors will surely get the best of you. The Rememher The Booster's policy of reciprocity ",a,' to heC0111e a specialist is to: learn how to do and help the Business Manager secure more ad one thing just a little better than the other fel vertisements.-E. R. J. low. Page Two THE · BOOSTER HAVE YOU School News YOUR SEASON PURCHASED TICKET? MARKETING CLASS HEARS IN- GENERAL BUS. DEPT. HOLDS COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TO TERESTING LECTURE SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL BE HELD AUGUST 19, 1927 F. M. Hathaway Explains Better First Dance in History of Depart- Business Bureau Activities ment Marked With Large College Selects Mr. Nicholas Roose- Attendance velt as Speaker of Occasion Before You Invest-Investigate The General Business Department Albee Theatre-10:aO A. M. Recently the students of Mr. Peas held the third big social event of ley's Marketing class were fortunate the year on Wednesday evening, An announcement was Imade re in having the opportunity of hear January 12, 1927, in the Providence cently to the effect that the Annual ing Mr. F. M. Hathaway, Executive Plantations Club Hall on Franklin Commencement Exercises of Bryant-· Manager of the Providence Better Street. Dancing was enjoyed from Stratton College will take place on Business Bureau give an interesting 8 until 12. Friday morning, August 19, 1927, at account of the work which the Bet The dance was the first in the hic;- 10: 30 A. M., in the Albee Theatre. ter Business Bureau is carrying out tory of the department, and the re- I The speaker of honor at the occa here in Providence. sults show that B-S students are ,'ion will be Mr. Nicholas Rosevelt, Mr. {Hathaway told the class that taking a lively interest in school so- j a relative of our late President Theo at the present time their were 43 cials. The dance was not held with dore Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt is a Better Business Bureau's in the the view of making profit, but mere- prominent outstanding lecturer and United States supported by manu Iy to promote the spirit of friendship writer, as well as being Editor of the facturers and retailers who are en among the students of Bryant-Strat- New York Times. deavoring to establish greater stan ton College. These exercises will be carried out dards of reader confidence in adver The social was sponsored by Mr. in a manner that, it is hoped, will tising. Charles H. Peasley, Head of The reflect credit upon the College, the H e told of several instances where General Business Department, and as- student body, and everyone connect the Providence Better Business sisted by able committee consisting ed with Bryant-Stratton College. No Bureau had investigated and prose of: John Hamilton, John O'Connor, time, thought, or expense will be cuted cases of fraudulent advertis Marie Traetta, Alice Gall and Rena spared in making these exercises an ing.