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...current Advocate provides a bill of fare for all tastes. It aims, one imagines, to afford the greatest happiness to the greatest number of contributors; for it contains no less than sixteen items, most of them being very brief. Naturally the total effect is interesting, though rather hard to digest...
...open to criticism for opposite reasons. In the first place, the requirement of a college degree for entrance renders such a school impotent to serve the public which is clamoring for admission in large centers like New York. Comparatively few men who intend to go into business can afford, whether from the material or from any other point of view, to wait until they are twenty-four or twenty-five years of age before entering upon a practical business career. And it is questionable whether even a few captains of industry will be recruited from this class. A purely graduate...
...unable to afford Plattsburg and would consent to act as waiters there, should call at the Regimental Headquarters...
...Manufacturing Company, there will be opportunities for work in electro-chemistry and high temperature furnaces. The application of electricity at low temperatures, and the general principles involved in paper making will be illustrated at the Eastern Manufacturing Company in Bangor, Me. The Atlas Cement Company, of Allentown, Pa., will afford extraordinarily good advantages for studying the practical applications of inorganic chemistry. The fifth and sixth plants have not yet been definitely decided on, but one will probably be where organic chemistry is chiefly used...
...Pratt, Chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington. Dr. Pratt, who is one of the country's foremost authorities in foreign commerce, has the co-operation and endorsement of the leading business men throughout the country in the preparation of this new course, which will afford a thorough and practical treatment of all phases of the subject. In his lecture, Mr. Nussbaum will bring out some of the more interesting facts in regard to foreign trade as a profession...