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...Professor W. J. Cunningham and others. The aim of this course is to assist men who are to become traffic managers of industrial concerns or who are to engage in work connected with Chamber of Commerce or Boards of Trade, and so forth. It is intended also to acquaint business men in general with the important relations between the railroads and the public...
...highly amusing. To begin with, husband number one does not know that his wife has married the second time, and to his best friend. He shows such delight in getting back to his home that his best friend, who is now husband number two, has no heart immediately to acquaint him with the true state of affairs. The suspicions of husband number one that everything is not quite right are aroused when he learns that his wife, from whom he has been parted for four years, is the mother of a fine baby but a few months old. Explanations must...
...University of Michigan has established a system of meetings compulsory for Freshmen at which various members of the faculty speak informally for a half-hour on subjects of interest to students newly come to the university. These talks are on college ideals and traditions; and these meetings tend to acquaint the students with well-known faculty members and with college modes of life. . . It is evident that the Freshmen . . . cannot hope to become familiar with the ways of college without some exterior assistance. They remain an amorphous but unamalgamated group in their present situation, and some definite means should...
...Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...
Where two men can get acquaint...