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...came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what is wellnigh sacrilege. Then indeed the public buys. Then articles are written a guing, pro and con, the merits and demerits of the publication. Yet in most cases it is the facts that are criticized...
Yesterday's announcement of Judge Landis' decision to end seventeen years of service on the Federal Bench, at $7,500 a year, and devote all of his time to his work as National Commissioner of baseball, at $50,000 a year, following close upon the resignation of Postmaster-General' Hays to take up a highly paid position in the motion picture industry, throws into relief one of the most serious questions of the present day. More and more is it becoming the practice for officers of the government, with or without reisgning, to participate in private activities. In some cases...
...scholar shall employ himself in less than seventeen subjects during any one year, nor more than thirty-four...
...famous English judges, including pictures of Sir Matthew Hale and Sir George Jeffreys by Kneller which rank with the same painter's portraits of Lords Holt and King, already in the possession of the Law School. As a result of this purchase, made recently in England, there are now seventeen portraits of English judges hanging in the reading room of Austin Hall, ranging in time from Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century to Baron Huddleston in the nineteenth...
...multiplication of courses has at present gone so far that the seventeen courses taken by the undergraduate represent but a small portion of the educational opportunities which are offered here. Many men go through college and, through no fault of their own, come in contact even in the lecture hall with relatively few of proffessors of faculty...