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...what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which distinguishes the greater part of the early work has caused many collectors, both professional and amateur, to eschew entirely this whole corpus of material...
...Hugh Cabot believes that teaching doctors should devote all their time to pedagogy, should eschew outside practice. The sentiment that a medical professor should be content to exchange a life of teaching with a moderate income for a career of practice with larger emoluments has grown, in the past few years, notably at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and Columbia. But when introduced a the University of Michigan, the notion was not well received. Faculty friction resulted. The Board of Regents met, pondered the situation, decided to demote Dr. Cabot. He still retains his Surgery Professorship at Michigan where...
...Practical politics" demands that before the British Labor Government recognizes Soviet Russia, Moscow must give an air-tight pledge that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway...
Ever since President Roosevelt called the first Governors' Conference at the White House in 1908 to discuss protection of national resources, state executives have been meeting periodically to discuss their executive duties, to eschew all controversial matters, to have a sociable time. This year's Conference, held last week by 22 Governors assembled in New London, Conn., bubbled with unusual excitement when Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York injected into it a letter on Prohibition which he had obtained from no less a personage than George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's National Commission...
...first of January for good resolutions and the first of April, a mere three months later, for practical jokes. So he feels that he is wholly within his rights in making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic...