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...year's sojourn in Europe are many and obvious; moreover, unless there should result a hegira to the Continent in large numbers--which would be extremely unlikely--it is difficult to see why the University should object to men financially able in taking advantage of this opportunity. It should abandon its obscurantist tactics and put the transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad may be of great value. This would make it possible for these men to get credit for an entire year's work in a reputable European school, without...
...Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond's veins, and he found himself choosing from the shelf "The Mentality of Apes." By degrees this enticed him to "Man and Woman," to "The Freudian Wish," and then to Ruth Shoule Cavan's "Suicide." No Vagabond could abandon that shelf without a glance at "The Aesthetic Attitude," but it seemed wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under the head Vision, but never a glimpse of Night Vision. So the Vagabond...
...dictatorship and a convocation of Parliament. To control Parliament or to ignore it. Chancellor Dollfuss last week had three choices. The first and, to him. the worst was to take into the Government some Nazi leader willing to accept the principle of absolute Austrian independence. The second was to abandon the Austrian Constitution and form a Fascist State on the Italian model. This would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito Mussolini. Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria...
...figures were within 50 votes of the official count. When Dana broke off relations with the Associated Press, it was Boss Lord who sent out a bucketful of wires and next day had all the national and foreign news he wanted. Not until Munsey bought the Sun did it abandon its own national news service-the Laffan News Bureau...
...sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem influence, the Bahaman dancers displayed merely conventional abandon, little rhythm and no reason...