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From the intellectual standpoint, success in the field depends on ability to think out certain problems in a fashion that puts a premium on general knowledge and imagination. A few individuals are able to get along with remarkably little work. Others try to do the same; some of these are really interested, but without the knack of "thinking geographically". The rest are just loafers looking for snap courses. Because only upperclassmen are regularly admitted to Geography 1, instructors must form their decisions upon the abilities of would-be concentrators without having any idea of their performance in course-work. When...
...George C. Ruhland, District Health Officer, as saying, "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." May I take issue with Dr. Ruhland on this point, for thousands of individuals have been healed of blindness and many cases where from a medical standpoint total blindness was considered inevitable, Christian Science has restored perfect sight. I present for your consideration the following statement by one of America's most noted artists: "March 28, 1937. " It is fitting that I should give testimony of my healing in Christian Science on this Easter morning...
Joker. From the U. S. standpoint any such horse trade would have peculiar significance. Under the Constitution the New Deal has not much chance of regulating by law the hours of labor in textiles. But there is no limit yet found to an Administration's power to make treaties. If a treaty can be ratified limiting the hours of textile labor to 40 hours it will help to solve the problem of Japanese competition. It will become the law of the land and thus open new possibilities for Federal regulation by treaty of labor conditions in many another...
Only trouble with this system from the Long standpoint was that in 1934 his enemy T. Semmes Walmsley used it to get re-elected Mayor of New Orleans. So two years ago Huey Long, striding up and down the aisles of his Legislature and cracking the whip, passed a law placing the naming of election officials in the hands of a board the majority of which was appointed by his Governor. Thereafter Longsters counted the votes...
...than that of Brunhilde in the Ring which she is also to sing here in Boston. The role of Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull part. Few tenors have been able to bounce up and down in a realistically painful manner...