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There are several unavoidable conditions which bring about this handicapping of distant candidates. Often the members of obscure high schools become interested in entering as Eastern college only late in their secondary course. A lack of friends and relatives with a background of collegiate experience makes it difficult to arrive at a decision that is a matter of natural sequence of boys brought up in closer touch with University traditions. As a result, the old plan of examination is out of the question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant...
...being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...Juries are often embarrassed when they have to render their verdict because they have not a sufficient influence on the choice of the sentence to be passed. . . . We consider that the solution of the difficulty can be found in closer collaboration between Magistrates and juries...
...Giovanni Giurati, Minister of Public Works. His valises packed, he was quite prepared to leave the no longer pleasant island of Sicily. But a telegram from Il Duce informed him that he must direct the work of salvage. Efficiently Signor Giurati assumed the role of St. George, valiantly and often vainly fought the dragon with dynamite...
...admitted will be selected to represent as many different types and interests as possible. They will attend the regular University classes. From the University as heretofore they will receive their degrees. The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy...