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...take over teaching duties of the younger men called upon for government service. It is a question whether the ten per cent cut will suffice: the estimate is based on the present draft legislation and the present state of world affairs. An unexpectedly greater drop in enrollment would sharpen the crisis, and this could come either from new draft laws or from Seniors who would ordinarily enter graduate school deciding instead to go direct to the many jobs now being created. On the other side of the picture, the enrollment and finances may be somewhat stabilized, it is hoped...
...work them: they will not work at all for the majority who will find Yeats's synthetic occultism repellent. The book remains, nevertheless, a remarkable integration of Yeats's feel of himself with his knowledge of mankind. By its rules of thumb he was enabled to sharpen the edges of his knifelike insights into men's personalities, to face the conflicts of his own nature with increased resolve, and to go on writing, up to his death, poems that presented what both his art and his life were aimed to present...
Most outstanding among the handful of U. S. doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him. Only attempt at humor in the whole spate of U. S. medical journals is the collection of stale, smutty jokes which have trailed with dismal repetition through the Journal's "Tonics and Sedatives" column for the past 20 years...
...Japan. And the World War made this alternative the more pleasant and probable prospect to most Japanese. They already had a characteristic phrase for Europe's war-"Divine Gale" to blow all the white men out of China. Last week the Japanese took out their pretty fans to sharpen the wind. Politely, firmly the Government announced that if other powers wished to remove their troops from China, Japan would be honored to "protect" their nationals and interests. Next move might be less polite, more firm -an ultimatum to Britain and France...
...contribution to that column of student opinion styled "The Mail." The title or subject matter of this missive might well "Let Us Be Virtuous" or "There is Work to be Done Before We Sharpen Our Skis" or "Honor His Memory" or "Who More Slothful in Their Inward Turning Gaze Than...