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...yesterday comes a full-panoplied report from another Army board which reversed, most opportunely for the President, the findings of its own engineers. Even in these days of governmental terminology, $170,000,000 represents a large sum, whether the money is for a presidential whim or not. The canal, indeed, is not even partially self-liquidating, for no tolls will be charged. It is a very notable fact even the ship-owners--the supposed beneficiaries--register a complete lack of enthusiasm for the project. Objections by the Geological Survey, raised in connection with the canal's probable effect upon...
...result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges, that the university can supply only the former. There is no substitute for experience; every business has its own idiosyncrasies, its own methods its own peculiarities. Universities today bow to every whim of corporations giving narrow, technical courses that really should be items of expense on the corporation balance sheets...
...perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos of war always seemed insanely futile from the air. From the new perspective of height the men who fought "in verminous filth to take the next trench 30 yards away" seemed incredible, since the pilot could...
...Whim, Not only the new Lifeline of Empire preoccupied Sir Samuel Hoare last week. Adolf Hitler was off on his white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...
John J. Slocum, in charge of editorial matter, is lacking many of the articles which are listed in the table of contents. Since he considers the inclusion of this material essential, the Album cannot go to press until his whim is satisfied. Consequently, he will conduct his own drive this week to evoke literary output from the moguls of undergraduate activities...