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...encourage the construction of the higher type of vessel suitable for naval auxiliaries of which we are so sorely in need, Senator Ransdell proposes "to allow the Shipping Board to create within the shortest period possible, out of the sale of its assets, at the world's market prices, a fund of $125,000,000, and to loan this money to American shipbuilders at not less than two per cent interest...
...state of affairs when Freshmen just starting out upon "the shortest, gladdest years of life" so lose their sense of perspective that they see only shame and dishonor to this "great institution of learning" in one of its gladdest phases, a phase that is also its oldest tradition...
...very recently no effective method of training for the transition from college to business had been devised. Yet this transition is unquestionably more difficult than the similar transition from the technical school to the engineering positions. In the ministry, the law, and the medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effctive way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards of the particular profession and to prepare for its practice is in a good school. The busy practitioner of any profession has neither the time, the specialized training, nor the equipment for the systematic instruction of beginners. This...
...very recently no effective method of training for the transition from college to business had been devised. Yet this transition is unquestionably more difficult than the similar transition from the technical school to the engineering positions. In the ministry, the law, and the medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effctive way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards of the particular profession and to prepare for its practice is in a good school. The busy practitioner of any profession has neither the time, the specialized training, nor the equipment for the systematic instruction of beginners. This...
...neck in a sack, especially if she jumps in it her modesty may be dubious, but she is decent. But there can be no doubt of the immodesty of one who goes half naked. . . . If I understand your gliding scale of Modesty, the most petticoats dance in the shortest petticoats, and the purest of all in fig-leaves...