Word: primes
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Since politics enter into government research, the other form of investigation, that by individual educational organizations, fulfills a necessary function. To be qualified to enter this field efficiently the Economics Department lacks a prime necessity, some form of endowment. Until it receives financial backing, similar, perhaps, to that of the Physics Department, this comparatively undeveloped branch of the University cannot widen the scope of its research work...
...regular weekly meeting of the Christian Association will be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.45. H. S. Gray '18 will lead the discussion on "Prime Factors in Success, particularly the success of Phillips Brooks House work." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...four hundred men out for track athletics, and it is expected that fully five hundred men will be enrolled this fall. Only a fraction of this number will have a chance for the university team, but the Cornell policy is that everyone will benefit from exercise, and that the prime purpose of athletics should be to attract as many persons as possible...
...colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg is Prime Minister of England?"--The New Republic...
...American Defense Society has issued the first number of its new publication. "American Defense." The prime movers in this undertaking are University graduates, C. S. Thompson '87 being the founder, and P. J. Roosevelt '13 the editor-in-chief. Other editors and contributors are G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, R. W. Child '03, C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister '82. The magazine has for its object the spreading of the preparedness propaganda over the entire country...