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...setting examinations leads to an over-flourishing condition of the art of passing them--by means of methods foreign to the true purposes of education. The seeker of grades is a technician of the first order. Machiavellian attention to insignificant detail, introduction of quotations purposely memorized and designed to convey the impression that the writer could quote with a similar facility on any given subject, and a host of other tricks;--the pursuit of grades is often conducted with an insincerity which accounts in no little measure for the disrepute in which they are held...
...surprising was the advent of a a doctor of medicine into the field of belles letters that the public has swooped upon the published products of the mind of Joseph Collins, M.D., with whoops of glee. He is thus able to convey his ideas to a vast group of the more intelligent, and, since those ideas are usually rather sound, he now effects an active good...
Many brokerage firms in Manhattan have gained the title of "wire houses" because of the extensive private telegraph lines which they lease to convey orders for securities to Manhattan. The 20 principal wire houses require about 300,000 miles of leased wires. A single large firm alone operates 40,000 miles of private-leased wires, connecting its main office in Manhattan with 12 branch offices and over 50 correspondent firms all over the country...
...Count Volpi read a cablegram from Premier Mussolini: "Please convey to the members of the American Commission the expression of my gratification, voicing the sentiments of the Italian people...
...taxis were engaged by the management to convey the players to the theatre. Upon alighting, the members of the party entered the lobby in a manner that was described by Manager S. de J. Osborne '26 as "not noisy, but quietly keyed...