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...undergraduate curriculum, several eastern universities adopted a few years ago the so-called New Jersey plan, which allows a group of selected students to spend the Junior year at some accepted European university and return as fully accredited Seniors the following year. Although admittedly experimental at the outset, the success of this plan has been so marked that it has been adopted as a permanent feature at such leading universities as Cornell, Smith, and Wellesley, to name only a few. The advantages of this system are so patent and its success so satisfactorily established that its adoption by Harvard would...
...Profit" was one word the world waited for. He used it early, with matter-of-fact simplicity and without malice. Next sentence: "These governmental and industrial developments hold promise of new achievements for the nation." Business-at-a-profit thus became, at the outset of his speech, not a naughty subject for the Presidential slipper but a respectable object of national hope and solicitude...
...common law, you as students in this law school are already members of the profession. Become imbued at the outset with the professional spirit...
...with the appearance of a man well versed in engineering and executive ability in such a position this one remaining vacancy has been filled and the University is at last running on a completed financial reorganization which indeed even at the outset presents a far more pleasing outlook than the old. As the change in the economic organization of the world continued, the old financial setup of Harvard became outmoded, and the need for a new and different construction was evident. This came, and now has been virtually concluded, with both a minimum of difficulty and to first appearances...
...Girl from Missouri (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the outset of this picture, Eadie (Jean Harlow) announces her ambition to stay pure and marry a millionaire. That she finally gets to the altar in that condition can be chalked up as a victory for Censor Joseph Breen, despite the fact that Eadie's character is such as to make ridiculous anything she thinks worth defending...