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...difficult, it is thought, to find men willing to fill these positions. Each House dean would have charge of a number varying from 200 to 280, as against the much larger figure with which the deans in charge of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes must now cope. But House deans would be shorn of disciplinary power: cases involving disciplinary action would be handled in University Hall. Their dependence, while resident in the units, on records kept in University Hall, is a minor problem for official solution: what is of interest here is the question: would the presence of deans...
...interested in no particular subject but has a craving for a smattering of almost anything there is one course in the University that is perfectly able to cope with such a vast intellectual search. That course is Anthropology...
...still lacked effective machinery to cope with the price rises it was stimulating. Retail prices went up 8% during August, 18% since...
...Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted into the air. That well at Spindletop was to turn out more oil in the first three years than all the wells of Pennsylvania combined. It remade the oil business. Unable to cope with a financial find of such magnitude the Jugoslav and his backer called in Colonel Guffey of Pittsburgh. Guffey soon called in the Mellons. Andrew Mellon bought out the discoverer for $400,000. The $15,000,000 Guffey Petroleum Co. (later Gulf Oil) was founded-40% Mellon owned to begin with...
...suspicions. Many teachers asked for a public trial for the victim--a reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began a demonstration. Here again the limits of decorum may have been passed, but surely it was stupid for the board to call policemen with clubs to cope with an outburst of indignant emotion, and still less wise to suspend two of the protesting teachers. To grant the public trial asked for would do more to restore morale among teachers and students than stubbornness and punishment. Policemen's clubs and presidential umbrellas are no longer believed to have...