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...Columbia for the U. S. He tried to buy a ticket; it was too late. But the ship's doctor turned out to be an old friend. He was anxious to stay at home for one trip, glad to let Dr. Wohlmut take his place. Before the doctor could confront his errant wife his duties had begun to complicate the situation...
...been indicated, an interesting and useful course in some ways, it is limited in others. The student is given no historical context in which he can place the cases which he reads. The course is thus not a study of the problems which confront our country, as social qquestions, but a study of the law of those problems as they have been, as it were, defined by the Constitution. For this reason, those who are primarily interested, not in law, but in politics, social ethics, and in government administration, are bound to dissappointment, while those who desire a knowledge...
Thus far the Democrats have hung together in spite of the difficulties which confront any program which they may adopt. Now, however, they question the ability of Mr. Garner to choose the proper course. They have divided on the question of the sales tax. Evidently actuated by strong pressure from their constituents, the Democratic members of the House threaten to revolt against the Speaker, and refuse to pass the new levy...
...legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows and "Beg pardon, I did n't get the name...
...Four-Course Plan, but it would assist materially the educational policy which is being pursued at Princeton. This policy, if we read it aright, is to introduce the undergraduate to the materials of various fields of knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable of sustaining this intellectual freedom. It is, of course, a truism that concentration and interest in a field of study increases in proportion as interruptions...