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...Spanish revolution is to be successful the state must establish its authority independent of that of the Church. It was inevitable that the Jesuits would come in for a share of the attack. They have maintained a power in Spain which the state could not afford to allow them. They have controlled much of the country's land, necessary to the development of the state and private enterprise, and have exercised a great influence in the nation through their far flung system of schools. In addition to whatever interference in political affairs can be traced to the Society, their position...
...infirmary was designed only for students, but a demand soon came for the accommodation of Faculty members, taxing its resources. The change in the kind of care hospitals are now expected to afford has rendered it still more inadequate. Whereas it is now common hospital practice that bed patients should be rolled out into the open air and sunshine, or down into the operating or X-ray rooms, this is not possible. at Stillman Infirmary. Neither the room doors nor the elevator allow a bed to pass through. And there are no balconies...
...liquor worth $3,600,000 recently seized from Finnish bootleggers in a "battle" with Prohibition agents which cost 14 lives. This liquor the Government expected to sell through its prospective Liquor Control Stores. Said the Governor of the Bank of Finland, suave Mr. Risto Ryti: "Finland could not afford to leave her liquor untaxed and her liquor trade in the hands of professional criminals...
...into a graduate school. It was not until someone noticed that the Gordon McKay bequest, which had just been received at the time, mentioned that the fund must be "kept accessible to pupils who have had no other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford" that the impossibility of this step was realized. Thus it was that the school continued as part of the college, with its own graduate department attached...
...into a graduate School no one at the time, apparently, observing that this might be inconsistent with a provision in the will that instruction under the fund must be "kept accessible to pupils who have had no other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford." Later this point was raised, and as the will states that all grades of applied science from the lowest to the highest may be taught, courses were offered for both gradu- ates and undergraduates. In practice this has not worked well; and by a plan just approved by your Board...