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Costa Rica. Limón is the chief Costa Rican port on the Caribbean. And Port Limón is the creation of U. F. C. The docks are owned by U. F. C.; the railroad from the port to the capital (San Jose) is operated by U. F. C.; of the townspeople of Port Limón, 95% are employes of U. F. C. And only U. F. C. ships touch at Port Limón. Hence last week, when U. F. C. threatened to suspend trade with Costa Rica, Port Limón had reason to feel that life itself was being threatened...
Australian officers wagered that the result will be the creation of a small Regular Army like Canada's (circa...
...Solly Ward who tells time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...
...nearly 1,600; the Medical School from 240 to 515. The latter would have many more students if it did not limit its numbers. The Graduate School, non-existent in 1879, now enrolls 900 graduates from all parts of the world. The Graduate School of Business Administration, a creation entirely new, has nearly 900. The Graduate School of Education, also quite new, has 300. Almost any one of the graduate departments would make a college about as large as Harvard College was in our day. The College is still the heart of the University, but it no longer dominates...
...until the end of the war the school of English at Oxford was comparatively small, but today it numbers about 300 men who are reading in English literature at the University. As it exists today it is largely the creation of the late Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a professor at Oxford from 1904 to 1919. When the school was started people feared that it would become a school of 'literary lounging', therefore there has been a good deal of the stiffening of the scholarship of English literature of late...