Word: salient
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...tirades of voluble fanatics, like Mr. Bryan, against the scientific spirit and religious heterodoxy of Harvard, are bound to find another salient of attack. Reverend George H. Thomas of Chicago sponsors the estimate that forty-four hundred eighty students out of forty-six hundred at the University of Tokio are atheists. The so-called atheism of Harvard, of perhaps a half dozen out of the entire student body, is utterly buried beneath this avalanche of revolt in Japan...
...National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee, a subcommittee of the Executive Council, issued its report, of which the following are the salient points...
MUSSOLINI-Edited by Parong du Son Severino-Dutton ($3.50). Baron di San Severino has, according to his preface, selected, translated! and edited the speeches of Benito Mussolini, as delivered between November, 1914, and August, 1923. The impression that the reader will receive is of a man whose salient characteristics are domination, simplicity, directness, courage. The speeches, per se, are not of general interest, but for anyone interested! in Mussolini, they are decidedly worth reading. Baron di San Severino has done an excellent piece of work, but he has not done it impartially...
Limitation of the entering Freshman class to 1000 and elimination of the admission condition are the salient points in the series of innovations announced yesterday concerning admission to the Freshman Class of the College and the Engineering School. The changes are called attention to in a letter which is being sent to high and preparatory schools by Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...time Britain can be said to have had a defined foreign policy up to the end of the Great War. On the period anterior to 1783 Sir Adolphus Ward, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, has written a long introduction in which he has skilfully outlined the main considerations and salient characteristics of those early days. The work as a whole can, therefore, lay serious claim to being a complete review of the whole of British foreign policy...