Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumed to possess. The technical requirements at the start are nil; a man entering the field can learn whatever is required of him, and as he progresses, his actual knowledge of investments will increase in direct proportion to the amount of effort he puts into learning his subject. Above all, a certain intelligence, ability to master a subject and the ability to inspire confidence based on knowledge of the subject, are the primary requisites...
...core of the volume is a Student Survey conducted by the Yale Student Council in 1926. It is the findings of this survey which supply the data for Mr. Crawford's treatment of the subject. The questionnaire employed by the Student Survey is printed in the back of the book, and seems to have emitted nothing which might help an intimate understanding of each individual...
...Prohibition law are now felonies and not misdemeanors. At Common law the division of crimes into Treason, Felonies and Misdemeanors was in a rough way a fairly sensible division. Felonies were grave crimes all named and defined that seriously threatened the social security and all felons were subject to the death penalty. Misdemeanors were crimes of a less serious nature and included all crimes not felonies or treason. But under the Federal law a crime is a felony or a misdemeanor according to the penalty attached there to and if the crime carries with it a maximum penalty of less...
...quantity of punishment which should be inflicted is not the subject of accurate and equitable determination. In the last analysis it must rest with the legislature which ought to be responsive to the general will of the majority. The collective judgment of the majority as to the social menace of the conduct interdicted should control. But the question of whether punishment should be severe or not is as old as society. Beccaria writing in 1764 was strongly convinced that crimes are more effectively prevented by the certainty than by the severity of punishment...
Crimson debaters will mount the rostrum in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock in an effort to vanquish the Carleton College representatives. The subject for discussion will be "Resolved. That the jury system should be abolished," with the University supporting the negative...