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...astronomers, canny classics scholars, practical esthetics lecturers- in fact, all Columbia's staff-were invited to pool their investments in a faculty fund to be handled by three trustees. The benefits promised: services of competent counsel, diversification of investments, a greater-than-average income and relief from the onus of handling securities personally. It seemed logical that at last the "poor professor" was to "get in on the ground floor" of financial opportunities that a great university's wealthy patrons and trustees are invariably in touch with...
...statement constitutes a brief for the liberal college. He sees the elective system as the symbol of the confusion which has befallen education and society alike with the increasing complexity of civilization. Unable itself to sift the mass of new knowledge the university shifts to the student the onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching, to underclassmen at least...
...ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has, apparently, as Chairman of the World War Debt Commission, taken over the onus of the Commission's work. For the moment it is not so great as it will be later. Last week's developments...
Surprise in Belgium was quickly clouded by well-founded pessimism. Such a Cabinet would never command support from Parliament. Premier Poullet was wary. He did not lead his Cabinet into the Chamber of Deputies, as did his predecessors, and bluntly demand a vote of confidence. Instead, he put the onus of responsibility on the Catholic Party by asking its representatives in the Senate and Chamber if they were prepared to support his Government.* The Catholic Senators voted no confidence, 36 to 22. The Catholic Deputies voted no confidence...