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...visitors entered the White House offices, passed through the police guard and other attendants until they came to the domain of Edward Clark, private secretary to the President. They gave Mr. Clark their names, and explained their business as much as possible. Mr. Clark said he believed he could arrange an audience for them with the President, if they would kindly wait. The two visitors seated themselves in the chairs provided and waited their turn. After an hour Mr. Clark told them they could now see the President. He led the way down the corridor and, opening the door...
...would be necessarily have missed the formative influence of the elective system and of intensive study in some special field. It is said that requirements kill initiative--that the survey method encourages superficiality; but we should favour the retention of the elective system in the domain of specialized studies, and the development of an even more intensive specialization of work is frankly special. The thing that we are quarrelling with is the regime of compromise which throws so much of the student's time into the region of half specialization that he is left in the end uninformed and undisciplined...
...republic has docreed otherwise. As an explanation for the treaties which the Turks cleverly wrung from the Allies at a conference where they were assumed to be a conquered nation. Dr. Gates, President of Rebort College in Constantinople, writes: "The Turks were determined to become sovereign in their own domain and they were willing and prepared to, fight in order to obtain this sovereignty, which the Allies were...
...plan should ever be enacted, it would be a great feather in the Monitor's cap. Meanwhile it is the daily pabulum of residents in the Monitor's domain, and an unknown dish to those who live beneath the swaying of other King Editors' quills...
...correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe on the sacred domain of the editorial writer. It is because of this fact that the European news in American journals is so often contradictory...