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Nevertheless, the School's needs continue great. Many things are wrong or undeveloped in the School. The Baker Library is inadequately endowed and has large unsolved problems ahead. The research of the School, by which its present standing has been built up and upon the continuance of which the maintenance of these standards wholly depends, is still subject to the risks of annual contributions from a shifting group of business men and industries. The years ahead are full of dangers as well as opportunities, but therein lies the interest in the School's future...
...modern science has given to modern Albums a means of description and narration which has also been aptly capitalized by the present daily press. There are pictures, more technically perhaps, cuts in the modern class compendiums, and the graduate who journeys to Singapore can refresh himself of an evening with views of the Yard, of the crew captain, and even of himself before his hair fell. Externals again perhaps but they are elements of importance in the memories which give color to a college education...
...cars look like Cadillacs. Fortunately the powers that be have decreed that the appearance of two new makes comes at a time of the year when the large majority of those interested will have ample leisure to study the situation. The recent additions to the General Motors family will present a problem such as to delight the hearts of conscientious brand spotters, but where are they to fit in the scheme of things? Obviously they overlap the price classes of other members of this quality group and old heads engaged in the business of selling cars as well as spotting...
However, when he accepted his position at Syracuse it was with the understanding that swimming was to be made a major sport, and since no change has been made up to the present time, he feels at liberty to resign his post and take up his coaching elsewhere. When the Athletic Governing Board ignored raising the standard of swimming as a Hill sport at Tuesday's meeting, Ulen apparently felt that he was under no obligation whatsoever. As a result, Syracuse is losing a man who has been invaluable as a producer of swimmers and swimming teams, and the entire...
Author Redlich, Moravian born, practiced law in Vienna, sat for twelve years in Austria's Parliament, and was appointed in 1918 Minister of Finance for old Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...