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...elements of character that go to make up the man, Eugene O. Sykes, are not, I affirm, those that bespeak for him the requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense...
...follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they have recorded shear waves passing through the core, believe therefore that the core is solid. Others are equally sure the core refuses to transmit shear waves, is hence molten-at a pressure of 15,000,000 Ib. per sq. in., a temperature of 50,000 degrees...
...Bank rumored that on Nov. 7 forehanded Count Charles de Broqueville prepared for the crisis of last week by arranging with the U. S. Federal Reserve System to supply up to $25,000,000 of quick credit to resist pressure against the belga. From Washington the Treasury would neither affirm nor deny that a "foreign loan" had been made to Belgium, indicated that if it were so the Bank of Belgium would eventually have to ship gold to cover as much of the quick credit as was used...
...commonplace now, after a series of hard experiences, to speak of the dangers of an academic proletariat with all its cruel consequences not only for the persons directly concerned but also for the nation as a whole," he writes. "Moreover, it is hardly worth while to affirm that the members of such a proletariat--disappointed, unemployed, and equipped with a relatively high standard of mental training and skill--very often become the bearers of a radical revolutionary attitude...
...each & every assistant, lecturer, associate, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor or plain teacher in Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Colgate, Hamilton and every other university, college, normal school, high school, elementary school and kindergarten in the State to subscribe to the following oath: ''I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge, according to the best of my ability, the duties of the position...