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...event that the Corporation in-forms the Overseers of its choice on Monday or Tuesday, the regulations of the University call for a week's delay before the Overseers' approval. It is a moot point whether the president-elect will be announced immediately upon his choice by the Corporation or whether the announcement will be held up until after the approval...
...that one of Authoress Jameson's favorite words is "sour." But so many successful authors deal in soft soap that it is scarcely surprising if less acclaimed but equally competent competitors take to acid. The three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love...
President Lowell's excellent report on the condition's in graduate schools again brings to the fore a moot point: is it the purpose of the scholar or scientist (for I make small distinction between them) to be eminent in his field; or (eminence being for him a side issue and of no significance) does he rather seek after beauty and truth for the sake only of beauty and truth? If the former, then surely "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." If the latter, will...
...Ames competition, which is conducted consists of the presentation and trial of a series of moot cases an various subjects by the Law School clubs. In the first year, each club must qualify to center the competition, and in the fall of the second year a competition is carried on which eliminates all but eight clubs. Quarter-finals are held in the spring of the second year, so that only third-year men participate in the tall semi-finals...
...Ames competition, which is conducted annually, consists of the presentation and trial of a series of moot cases on various subjects by the law clubs. In the first year, each club must qualify to enter the competition, and in the fall of the second year a competition is carried on that eliminates all but eight clubs...