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...Union Pacific train will consist of three cars hinged together and seating 116 passengers. Four-wheel trucks will carry the entire train-one under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country...
...fall. The physical development of Harvard is now an accomplished fact: the House Plan and the tutorial system have reached a stage in their existence where any further treatment is a matter of small refinements and revision of detail. To a large extent, the new President's work will consist of just such minor adjustments; to him has descended the difficult task of rounding off the edges, and of reconciling the conflicts presented by the many innovations which have been implanted in the University in the last fifty years. This task is no less important than the creation...
...Mathematics contest will take place on May 19 and 20 at West Point and will consist of a two-hour and a three-hour examination in analytic geometry and calculus...
...logical from of such action would consist in a definite agreement between the House Masters as to the number and character of Freshmen to be admitted into each House. As a result of this agreement, a rough but proportionate cross section would for the first time be admitted to each Houses and those Houses particularly overdosed with private school or club men would receive a smaller number of them than the other Houses. This is of course, precisely the sort of action which should have taken place last year, and it is a sad commentary on the weak relations between...
...small number of men who could afford to take advantage of the opportunity. The work suggested for a thesis course would be somewhat similar, however, to that done now for the Review and the occasional conferences; though there would be more time and incentive to do it. It would consist, roughly, in the resurrection of interesting and significant cases, or in specific and general treatment of modern law, dealing with its trends and peculiarities. In order that men taking this course will be more informed than glib, it should be given only in the third year. This will allow...