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...provisions of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act (passed in 1920) "the Interstate Commerce Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems." Under this law the Commission must act just as if the Sherman Anti-Trust law were nullified by its provisions. Later the Supreme Court will decide whether such combinations are legal. The Court may hold that the Sherman Act applies only where the combination is to the public detriment...
...evils that beset all army while inactive--to prevent classification in take job he urges periodic changes of work; to prevent dependence on orders from above he forbids assumption of any duties unless peculiar to the office. With a man at the head who is willing to adopt new theories and attack old dangers, it can be hoped that our army, though small, will be fit to withstand the shock of sudden activity ad expansion if need arise...
...fashioned cut system, it is well to notice some other respects in which we can afford to learn from Yale. One of these is the midwinter Alumni Day which has become a young tradition at New Haven. Princeton has watched its operation and thought it good enough to adopt; the University may well give it some consideration...
...colleges has the fine art of saving nothing in a profound and impressive style been cultivated to comparable perfection. This is at once the pride of the students and the despair of he professors, but it is evident that the latter are unnecessarily perturbed. The future for those really adopt is magnificent,-the Senate awaits the true artists...
...different from contemporaries. There will be nothing incongruous in the appearance of the modern debutante in a dress made of Tutankhamen silks. "Luxorian models are all the rage, and the Pharoahic skirt is destined to appear at Palm Beach and the Copley." And wives of the future may adopt the "Ankhsenpaten smile...