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...last year, they instituted an experiment which should be extended. Development of this policy will not only give a man greater leisure in which to judge the merits of his future place of residence but will also enable him to associate with upper-class friends and thereby feel closer akin to the College...
...start a program of intense naval building. Their lead will probably be followed by the Germans who are allowed, under this summer's treaty, 35 per cent of the total British strength. When this race starts it will be but a stone's throw to an international situation akin to that existent in Europe...
...Introduction: Physics C in the last years has become a mere repetition of Physics B, with a slightly more advanced viewpoint. It is also dangerously akin to Physics D. We feel a need for an advanced survey course, which goes into considerable detail into the various fields of physics, and is designed for the student who has had at least an adequate year of physics. It is our hope that a course of this nature will give a man who has decided to concentrate in physics some idea of what section of the field he might especially study...
...farewell to the outgoing board. To them go our congratulations on a highly successful year, our respect for their opinions, well considered and well expressed, and our best wishes for their future as individuals. With a feeling of some astonishment and of some regret, akin to that of the graduating schoolboy who suddenly finds himself in a position to disobey his masters, we discover that we are shutting the door on their policies...
...exhibition of the season which opened last week at New York's Marie Harriman Gallery. On view were a succession of carefully drawn studies that might be landscapes, trees, sky, the ends of old houses and narrow streets, but were actually elaborately conceived studies in pure color, psychologically akin to the huge abstractions of Pablo Picasso...