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...first Institute of Comparative Law in the United States will be founded at Harvard this Fall to afford the students of law in the newly enlarged Harvard Law School a concrete basis of ideas from the law of other countries on which to build the legal reforms of the future...
...precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...feel that by giving the small investor a chance to participate in the profits made in a sound enterprise is the surest way to prevent dishonesty and losses to those who can ill afford them...
...only 365 colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree. Their number is small because not one Southern college offers them training. They must travel north for education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse training: "The neglect of health is not so much unfairness and prejudice of the white toward the Negro as it is a complete lack of interest. This...
...floated on the Severn River off Annapolis last week, her nose in a barge. Lieutenant Williams, swiftest U. S. straightaway flyer since he won the 1923 Pulitzer speed trophy at St. Louis by flying 266.6 m. p. h., built the Mercury from his own specifications. The Navy could not afford the building costs. So friends supplied him the needed $175,000. The navy gave him factory facilities...