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...trip this summer will consist of a study of shore line changes along the Atlantic coast. Professor Johnson, accompanied by two assistants, will examine the more important shore line features from the Bay of Fundy to southern Florida, giving special attention to geologically recent changes in the forms of beaches and to supposed evidence of recent coastal subsidence. Lines of levels will be run between the ocean and lagoons, bays, etc., to ascertain the relative heights of high tides at different points on the irregular shores, in the belief that the data thus secured will throw light on the problem...
...pledged $36,000 a year for the first five years. As regards buildings, it is probable that those now occupied by the St. John's Medical School of Shanghai will be used. The course will deal largely with public health and preventive hygiene, for which there is great need along the Chinese coast where plagues run rampant...
Yale scored in the first inning when Burdette drove the ball to right field along the foul-line for a home run. In the ninth inning with two down Wingate singled and stole second. Brown was getting somewhat nervous and passed Harvey. Reynolds with two strikes against him singled and Wingate scored. Clark flied out ending the chances of a win for the Freshmen...
...should be remembered that the problem of combination is one that is born of the last century, along with new inventions, and the use of steam and electricity. The fact that modern industry requires so much more capital than formerly eliminates in itself a certain amount of competition. Although there are perfectly justifiable advantages which come from the combination of certain industries before the monopoly stage is reached, the advantages enjoyed by the monopoly in controlling prices and in crowding out small competitors are evils which, although not strictly in violation of present laws, are nevertheless evils which future laws...
...scholarship is theoretically apparent, for the one large class of men through whom this end can be accomplished, will be most affected by the publication of marks. That class comprises men who, although perfectly able to make an average of B's, are content, as it were, to skate along on the thinnest ice which the Office will allow. Were their marks made public, a sense of pride and the knowledge that many friends know them to be capable of much better work, would combine to make these men exert their best efforts. Such conditions apply to the average undergraduate...