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...rules adopted in 1907 were very close to the rules that prevail today and provided for the award of Honors in some specific field other than in General Studies. Degrees cum laude were to be given in general studies, but summas were to be given only in "extraordinary cases...
Harvard must get practically top performance all the way along the line if it is to prevail over one of the best balanced teams Jack Moakley has ever built at Cornell. Cornell is figured to score in 13 of the 15 events on the program, and Harvard in the same number. The preliminary dope sheets appearing in Cambridge show Harvard to have a probable total of 52 points, Cornell 50 points, Pennsylvania and Princeton 33 points each, Yale 32, Dartmouth 29, and Columbia...
...common advantage of all, or the French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...delegates and officers plus his own ill health cost Dr. Warnshuis his job. When he took the secretaryship of the California Medical Association, A. M. A. headquarters in Chicago expected him to control that State's alarming tendency toward socialized medicine. But Dr. Warnshuis was unable to prevail against Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results: California Medical Association last year practically bolted from the American Medical Association. The A. M. A. refused to elect a California doctor as trustee. Eleven thousand...
...Finance Minister chose such a course. "Bible Bill" Aberhart evidently was loath to give the Dominion additional financial reins on his Social Credit government. As for Finance Minister Dunning, he washed his hands of Alberta's de- fault, observing: "If Social Credit is sound and good, it will prevail. But I don't know what Social Credit is. I may be dense." That was the way Alberta's bondholders felt when, on the heels of the default, Premier Aberhart rushed through its first two readings a bill enabling his government to convert its entire...