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...inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text, short enough to be thoroughly considered before the class meeting...
...facts about study in American universities justify to some extent the disrespect felt for certain types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work...
Compact, kinetic, quick-spoken, the new Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted by their experience, Mr. Chapin last week began his job even before he took office by rushing into print with a splurge of economic good cheer.* To spellbound newshawks he ejaculated...
Convicted. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., boat builder; of obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N. J. Defendant Curtis repudiated his original confession that he had hoaxed Col. Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed...
Inquisitor Seabury attempted to show how, in 1925, the Messrs. Hastings & Walker got into the Equitable Coach Co. deal, a grandiose but fruitless scheme to get a city franchise, start a bus line, swap stock and concessions with other municipal services and ultimately control the city's entire privately-owned transit system. "A little syndicate" was formed with $282,000 worth of contributions from three members: Frank R. Fageol of Kent, Ohio, builder of motor coaches; his vice president Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foamite Corp.); President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...