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...thus especially needs not merely a severe training in established facts and methods but training also that will give him a background which will permit him to comprehend further progress and to progress himself with it. In order words no one more needs some training in rapid but critical reading. Until recently, however, the pressure upon the medical student was such that it was extremely difficult for him to do reading aside from the text books that the routine demands...
...Student Friendship Fund Drive is an agent of great potential power and benefit for youth. It is based on a breadth of vision which near sighted critics may fail utterly to comprehend The conversion of such critics is but a side issue of the main object which is a direct appeal of youth in one land to that in others. Thoughtful Americans whose minds have ventured out of the provincial stage will support the Drive...
Unhappily the vast labyrinths of the English system of property tenure have served immemorially to make such suits unavoidable. For 30 years British jurists have been at work on a "simplification" of this system, which has grown into "a bill of 310 printed pages, to comprehend any one of which a layman would require a small law library...
...fully $30,000 after providing for interest on the investment and the sinking fund required. It is so obvious that more seats would result in an increase of our net income from the two capacity games now played annually in the Stadium that I am utterly unable to comprehend the process of reasoning followed by the CRIMSON in arriving at the conclusion that the building of more football seats would delay the provision of athletic opportunities for all. Such an argument, to quote Mr. Jones of Yale, is nothing less than "ridiculous...
...Horatio-Alger-like career of Chairman Jones. "From rags to riches," said the New York World. Two of the gum-chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when he was working his way through business school by selling typewriters. Other photographs pursued him from...