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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis started life with three cents. He accumulated a fortune. All his life he founded or bought papers doomed to failure, but never once did he fail. He hates details but can easily grasp them. He is a master of business but it has not enslaved him. He loves big things. He works hard. He enjoys vacations. He has always been scrupulously honest. He is a perfect judge of men. His associates and employees adore him. Cyrus H. K. Curtis is public-spirited. He is spiritual-minded. He never took music lessons but can play the organ...
...different serums. He gives credit to the United States for first rank in the world-wide fight against consumption. Most human beings carry the tubercle bacillus in their systems from early childhood, but the majority are able to throw off the disease through their natural powers of resistance. Others fail to develop this immunity and the infection flares up and becomes pulmonary. The new test consists of a serum which is mixed with a sample of the patient's blood. This serum reacts positively only when the tubercular process is still actively present, and not when it merely...
...past few years have found the assistance and attention of the venerable librarian, Mr. Thacher, a constant aid and help. His knowledge and love of the books in the collection was equalled-only by his readiness to give any aid within his power. None who met him could fail to be impressed by the dignified kindliness of this gentleman of the Old School. To his friends and relatives the CRIMSON only speaks the feeling of the entire University in extending its deepest sympathy...
...study. The student of modern politics who had no knowledge of social psychology and economic history would be unable to go far in the analysis of political organizations and activities. The student of public administration who was ignorant of such subjects as accounting, statistics, and public finance would fail to penetrate the depths of his subject. Above all, the student of government should read history, especially the biographies of statesmen, for the data of politics are the acts of men. History and biography form the bodies of data, which the student of government must utilize as the basis...
...claim", he declared, "that any action which is destroying the great reservoir of good will built up in America for France during the war, which has already broken the Entente, and will shortly lead, unless all signs fail, to action by the British against the French their chief law officers have declared the action of the French a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and their newspapers are now united in opposition to the policy in the Ruhr--is surely the supreme of stupidity, the very reverse of enlightened and intelligent statesmanship. France's action has been denounced in Sweden...