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...school also is Room 349?"a play etched from life"?which attempts to capitalize the murder of the late Arnold Rothstein, Manhattan mountebank, who was mysteriously shot in Room No. 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Nov. 4, 1928, in circumstances which suggested that he had been remiss about paying his gambling debts (TIME...
...Remiss Schools. Editor Sam M. Williams of the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press submitted the report of a committee on schools of journalism. Bluntly said he: "The schools of journalism themselves are remiss for the unsatisfactory product that is being foisted upon the newspapers. We have found that many of the graduates of the schools of journalism have selected that course as the easier way of getting through college, and in our own offices we have found that only one out of 20 graduates of the school makes good. Judging from its graduates, Editor Williams thought that the University...
...hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining non-partisan and more or less theoretical, cannot materially further this type of education. Recent political club revivals lack sufficient staying power...
...University. In the first place, the committee will take upon itself the responsibility of properly receiving and welcoming the teams sent from the schools which play against the Freshman teams in any field or department of athletics. The student council has long felt that the College has been rather remiss in this capacity and that in past it has neglected to extend to visiting preparatory schools the courtesy which is their...
...springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action be taken, and indeed the time had expired in which a court martial could be held. Shortly after the trial he was retired on reaching the age limit...