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Increase of population, colonies, access to the sea, sea lanes, markets, food, and raw materials are thus the principle causes of rivalry between nations. Mr. Bakeless, however, does not content himself with this general statement, but outlines all the possible kinds of friction between various nations today and the potentiality of a new world war in each of them. For there is no isolation in the modern world. Mr. Bakeless foresees that, in the near future, the United States will lose its favorable isolation, as England lost here during the past twenty years. The greatest value of this book...
...very least there ought to be room for half of the student body at any one time, and plans should be made for reading-room space for all students. Work in the reading rooms is an essential part of the system. Unless all students are able to have continuous access to the reports, encyclopedias, digests, and text books, and learn for themselves how to use a lawyer's tools, much of what it is sought to achieve is left undone. Additional reading-room accomodations for 750 students should be provided...
...would require two years of graduate residence instead of the single one now prescribed. The work of these two years would be cultural rather than technical. The aspirant for this degree, though left more to his own resources than he had been in his undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures and the tutorial system. At the end of his term of preparation, the student would submit an essay, roughly corresponding to but much less exhaustive than the thesis for the doctorate, which would show his fitness to be considered a master of his field...
...bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...Pittsburgh the Federal Trade Commission held hearings in an attempt to prove that the Aluminum Co. had violated the law. The company offered the Commission access to all its contracts with domestic and foreign firms, but when it came to divulging the list of its stockholders the company balked...