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...paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...wire to his no-volt electric light system. When a trespassing dog grazed the wire last week, it got an electric shock, ran away yelping. Soon the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals heard about Mr. Burns's electric fence, asked for an injunction to compel him to remove it. Few days later the Philadelphia Electric Co. tested the fence, pronounced its amperage too low to harm dogs or children, and the S. P. C. A. called off the suit...
...been unanimously reelected. This week, nearing the age of 75, he retired. As head of a news-gathering agency whose 1,400 newspaper members make it one of the two greatest in the world, Frank Noyes for 38 years had carefully avoided expressing opinions on public questions. "Circumstances compel me to be an intellectual eunuch," he explained...
...down the stupendous railroad bonded indebtedness; 2) amendment of the Bankruptcy Act to prevent minority groups of security holders from sidetracking railroad reorganizations as they do now with such effectiveness that no road has come through reorganization in five years; 3) establishment of a Federal authority to compel consolidation...
...inside union's organizing campaign was played by janitors in the Freshman dormitories and houses. These men impaired the University's record of impartiality by permitting union cards to be distributed to the maids on University time. Some janitors exceeded their authority even further by attempting to compel maids to join the new union. More than one apostle of the new faith intimated to the maids that their bread and butter depended on their decision...