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...means very little to university faculties and nothing at all in any other profession. But the degree has a fond place in academic tradition, and it is doubtful that it will be universally discarded for many years. But at Mr. Lowell's behest, it may soon vanish at Harvard. --Boston Herald...
...they have decided what they think about the curtain, and inspected the broad shallow horseshoe of boxes to see how many and which Insulls, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fairbankses, Fieldses, Cranes. Swifts, Thornes and family jewels are present, Chicago first-nighters will see the black-haired girl and her white camels vanish upward (the stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with golden...
This practice has the ear marks of a result and is not a basic evil. Were there no opportunities for the crammer to succeed, this type of last minute study would vanish. This brings us to a consideration of school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding...
Business men, said he last week, should be licensed. The prospective retailer should be given an examination in stock turnover, in markups, in cash discounts, in keeping books. According to Professor Converse, the average corporate life is less than six years and from 45% to 50% of retailers vanish from the merchandising world in less than five years...
...sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show more discernment than they have...