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...public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences. Gaus earries on his specific researches on civil service and the power-man conjunction within a frame of thinking that is almost a credo. The hall mark is distinguished service. But "politics" will win unless the air of above-board teamwork replaces friction on the base level...
...from full employment and higher incomes; the continual lag of purchasable goods and food behind demand; the aggravating intangible of national selfishness; the absence of anti-inflationary taxation or monetary policies; and finally, the sapping drain on the economy caused by export of goods without imports in exchange. The interplay of these factors causes the present state of prices...
Pretty Whims. The destiny of the young republic, by Feuchtwanger's account, turned as much on the personal interplay between these characters as on General Washington or the Continental Congress. Without Beaumarchais' stubborn vanity and romantic ambition, the revolting colonies might not have armed the troops that forced the British surrender at Saratoga. Without that victory, Franklin's mission might have failed. Even with that victory, says Feuchtwanger, Franklin owed his success less to the wisdom of French policy than to a whim of Antoinette. It will probably be news to paid-up members of the D.A.R...
...feeding habits of fish are affected by the tides. (Fish, says Knight, like two square meals and two snacks a day.) The best solunar times vary with the longitude as well as the day, so Knight compiles different weekly tables for each of the newspapers. Each calculation involves the interplay of two forces-the sun's and the moon's gravitational pull-on a given spot on the earth's surface...
...alternative advisory systems, though substitutes of a sort, hardly can replace the interplay between student and faculty which tutorial's old Oxford-Cambridge-type individual instruction could extend. At present the only departmental criterion of a student's aptitude and interest in tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic...