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...work have never heard of the Green Look Society, of the Back to the Campus Committee, or of the Alpha Kappa Beta Fraternity upon which he has lavished his time. The numerous council meetings which had to be attended on the nights that reports fell due, to the detriment of reports, are things of the past to the graduate. They are pleasant memories, perhaps, if the student happens to fancy brilliant harangues as to the merit of his fellows as dance-committeemen. But it is reasonable to expect the acquisition of more than pleasant memories from...
...author in the first paragraph, "is a deliberately restricted and selective treatment of an inexhaustible subject." It is addressed to the aggressive feminist who in the upward swing of woman's reaction from the past attempts to find a place in man's field of activities to the detriment...
Last week, as he emerged from Pennsylvania, Miami officials announced that they would oppose to the limit his return to Palm Island, branded his presence as "a detriment to the whole community...
Finally there are at least two advantages which probation offers which Mr. Clark does not consider. In the first place the restriction of the privilege to engage in extra-curricular activities resulting from probation acts as a check upon those students who are unable to engage in them without detriment to their academic pursuits. Probation unquestionably concentrates the faltering student's faculties upon his work more than any warning could, and it is not always the inferior student who needs this help from above. And lastly punishment has from time immemorial been an influence on the lives of men. There...
...Schacht's arrival was immediately marked by a loud announcement that as Reichsbank head he would not support the establishment of a bank of International Settlements as planned. His chief reason : The Original Young Plan had been tampered with to the detriment of Germany. Then startlingly, after a series of meetings, the leading conferees, including the Germans, not only ignored Dr. Schacht's eruption as unofficial, but reached an agreement that any moratorium must be concluded before another is granted, that Germany would make payments on the fifteenth of each month as asked by the Allies...