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Undergraduate Power. Yes, as President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve University had written in the New York Times, an outstanding phenomenon everywhere during 1925-26 was the increasing power???or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...
...those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await me," said the Queen. He came back to power???not the old Gladstone of Christ Church, Oxford, but the new Gladstone; who, little as he could have dreamed it, was the forerunner of the pre-War Lloyd George, Liberal demagog...
...Shoals power, while a nitrogen-fixing industry is developing, will probably be considerably greater than is needed. But, if Muscle Shoals plants were eventually called upon to furnish all the nitrogen compounds necessary for domestic agriculture and industry, they would probably fall short of the demand for lack of power???they certainly would at the present stage of development. On account of the many "ifs," "buts" and uncertainties, whatever disposal is made of the plant must be reasonably flexible in its provisions...