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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance of election you call a problem in higher mathematics. Norman Thomas will poll a small percentage of votes and he will not be elected; the error in any estimate of the number of his votes is insignificant in its relation to the result desired, knowledge of the outcome of this election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Significance | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...following: "Vicarious Admissions" by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, an important contribution to the law of Evidence; an article by a well known New York corporation lawyer on the liabilities of a trustee under a corporate trust indenture; a discussion of multiple incorporation and the conflict of laws. "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law", by E. S. Corwin; a valuable critique of some phases of present federal equity practice, as well as articles by Dean Roscoe Pound, Professors Zecharian Chafee and F. B. Sayre and other noted professors of law and active members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...grey, upstanding mane that shook and tossed and needed sweeping back between periods of an oration. Young Bob's mane is thick and gets swept back between periods. But it is soft and curly. Young Phil's mane is thick and straight and it tosses higher and harder, for Young Phil is the greater orator. He did speechmaking on the 1924 trip while Young Bob did staffwork behind the scenes. He went in for debating at college, when Young Bob, who left college early, was being his father's secretary in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...boost hospitals higher on their toes the College of Surgeons last week insisted that hospitals follow up their patients for six months after discharge. This is to make certain what good, or ill, the hospital does to its clients. Another bolster is the requirement that all approved hospitals hold staff meetings at least once a month and make doctors explain just why any of their patients died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism. Besides violating an evasive thing called "good taste", it is a fundamental error in showmanship, in which some one higher up, not the member, is blameworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT BRIEF CANDLE | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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