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...offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained with nautical legends-fish, dolphins; a bit of an ancient maritime chart; a square rigger. A great tapestry alone adorns the walls. Here, at a massive oak desk sits the massive youngest Scripps, editorial director of 25 newspapers, amid a sombre ruggedness that seems a filial translation of the father's hardiness complex...
...Committee was instructed to arrange that the tests be given on the same day in all the colleges and schools, which have students who are applying for admission to a medical school; and to furnish each medical school with the scores of its applicants, and a distribution chart of all the applicants...
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...
...been found that the boys will eat heartily up to the latter part of the season, then their food will fall off several hundred calories, and more so if the team is overworked. Consequently the weight chart plus the food consumed serve as a good indication of the physical condition of the players...
...Someone once said: "Congress is always ten years behind public opinion." Yet nothing can be done about anything in this country before public attention is focused upon Congress to make it become selfconscious. . . . If the above aphorism is still accurate, you may have five or six more opportunities to chart the progress of the "Groundswell" as new Congresses are elected. That you will maintain your long, efficient view of Prohibition and other national problems is the confident trust and comfort of this well-satisfied subscriber...