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...both the large and small investor this study should serve as a valuable bandbok. Mr. Shaffner clarifies the present market situation and realizes an attempt to warn today's investor of the pitfalls which confront him. His recommendations form a minor part of the book, the greater portion being taken up with a critical analysis of prevailing corporate practises and investment theories, but they seem substantially accurate and well-founded...
...tests. Last week Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman of Boston was appointed manager of New York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious doctors butt one another unmercifully, Dr. Bowman has managed to hold three competitive teaching jobs simultaneously-in Harvard, Boston University and Simmons College...
...would interview all students reported for abuses and pass judgment on their cases with Administrative Board approval. Two problems would confront him. First, he would have to tolerate intoxication which has no public consequences. Secondly, he would have to determine when a man is damagingly drunk. For this purpose he would have to possess accurate testimony and sufficient knowledge of a man's previous record so that he can use intelligently the weapons of warning, probation, and dismissal...
...Rome last week the inventor of wireless asked a chance to address British radio listeners on the war, was turned down by British Broadcasting Corporation, wrathfully set out for London to confront members of His Majesty's Government with the fact that free speech had been denied to Guglielmo Marconi...
...needless to comment on the unfairness of this situation. Why should a man, just because he went to Groton, shoulder the responsibility for the drastic economies which confront the Council on every front this year? He should not have to spend sleepless nights because his failure to give has deprived some fellow of an education or prevented some much needed charity. No, the Rector had better file his application today...