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...father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction. Amsterdam avenue, Spuyten Devil, Riverside Drive, all the the part of the city except the canons of Wall street, are brought before the readers eyes by the vividness of Miss Hurst's works...
...Nevertheless, if the various threads of the story had not all been led to the same place--the happy ending--the naive, if unskilled expressions of philosophy, would have been of greater value. As it is, we have a kind of Daisy Ashford book, spoiled at the finale by partial sophistication...
...came to the University in the fall of 1915 and the following spring gained victories over Cornell and Yale, losing to Princeton by only six inches in one of the most remarkable races ever held between the two universities. The war interrupted crew work and 1918 saw, only a partial resumption of the annual race against Yale in the form of a regatta on the Housatonic, which the University won. In 1919 Dr. Mather Abbot's crew at Yale defeated the University and in the early season of 1920 the Crimson went down in defeat before the Navy and Princeton...
...owners cannot operate the plants the workers will." They may succeed in North Carolina--and they may not. Most persons agree that labor and capital must continue to be partners, each dependent on the other. Yet even the failure of the iron workers in their experiment will bring partial success: for both sides in dispute will have learned to know each other. Capital will have learned that workmen are human beings interested in management and profits; labor, that a twenty percent reduction in wages does not mean that the president and his friends are buying new houses and automobiles. Slowly...
Since its partial dismemberment at the time of the Gordon McKay fund controversy, when the Engineering School was to have been combined with M. I. T., the School Library in Pierce 209 has steadily been reorganizing, so that at present a complete collection of works on engineering and technical subjects connected with that science, beside a file of all the important periodicals on the subject, is now on the shelyes. Among the 2500 monographs there is an especially noteworthy list of books on electricity, while the 130 odd periodicals offer the latest news of developments in the field of engineering...