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...recent years a "leisure class" has begun to emerge, and it exhibits all the usual characteristics. Especially on the Atlantic seaboard, where contact with Europe is continual, the grandchildren of men who made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs...
...Trusts is an important course in a law school curriculum. It must not be confused with the popular designation of industrial combinations. It deals with the legal relations arising from holding property under an obligation to employ it as directed by the person from whom it was received...
...make certain such success more than verbal approval is needed. On the one hand, graduates who are conducting businesses in the vicinity can cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help...
...organization of U. S. education continues. Last week, masters from 18 Eastern private schools sat down together at the Fessenden School (West Newton, near Boston) and determined that hereafter there should be some uniformity in the admission requirements that all their schools employ. They appointed a committee-Messrs. Osgood of Milton Academy, Christie of St. George's, Fessenden of Fessenden- to appoint examiners and prepare and distribute papers in entrance subjects common to all the schools. Entrance to these 18 schools will hereafter be similar to entrance to those colleges which exact the uniform College Board standards of their...
...Turks in the War, made Calif of Islam by no other than himself, opposed the heretical warriors of the Emir of Nejd; but he was not so successful as his sons, Faisal, King of Iraq, and Abdullah, Emir of Kerak (Trans-Jordan). These two monarchs had been able to employ war birds of Britain and strike terror and confusion into Ibn Saud's ferocious men by dropping fire from the skies. Husein, himself had asked the loan of a flock of war birds. But Britain refused. She could not become implicated in a religious war. She had definite obligations...