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...student to work out a rational view of life which accords with the teachings of science but which also takes into account those higher truths of character which science cannot teach. For the latter the student must go to philosophy. A course in philosophy is therefore the natural complement of a course in science...
...equinoctial diversions compared with certain residents of New Jersey for the dean of one college in that state has been forced to call the law to his aid in maintaining culture and constraining concupiscent collegians from over indulgence in hot dogs and gin neither of which is a nice complement to the other. Indeed, so violent have been the results of such admixtures that the dean has laid a curse upon road-houses and a complaint in the daily press...
...beggar not at all, Mr. Rosenwald yet gives regally, in million dollar gestures, usually with a stipulation that the recipient secure some complement no matter how small. Some gifts: to 13 Negro Y. M. C. A.'s and 2 Y. W. C. A.'s in 13 cities having a Negro population of about a million, $2,750,000; to the University of Chicago and other institutions, $700,000; to the establishment of a University of Chicago Medical School, $500,000; to the Wilmer (Eye) Institute Fund of Johns Hopkins University, $50,000; to the creating of "neat...
...Commission at Washington, lawyers for opposing factions of railroaders, bankers and investors tersely yet passionately made their final pleas for and against the proposed billion-and -a -half consolidation of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads into a fourth great eastern system to complement the already existing New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore & Ohio lines. Stock in the five roads involved sufficient to swing the deal is already controlled by Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his brother Mantis J. Van Sweringen, the genii of the plan, together with their banking associates. It remains...
...spring, its work should be such as to confirm this assumption, then, indeed, will be time to recognize that the interests of education are best served when those who teach and those who are taught arrive at a mutual understanding by laboring together in their common cause, each the complement of the other...