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...Freshman squad contains several good individual players but there is a decided lack of teamwork. Of the few attempts made in passing, the majority proved futile and in the future it will be the chief work of Coach Joseph Michels to develop a coordinating team...
...such it undoubtedly became in his own particular field of modern international relations. Master of many languages and acquainted with the public men of many countries, he was particularly at home in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Near and Far East, and did much to develop the scholarly study of these regions in American Universities. After he gave up the conduct of History 1 in 1905, his teaching and writing centered more and more about recent diplomatic history. To undergraduates he brought a sense of fresh contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate...
...hardship. It would be safe to say that for at least half of this number the regular opportunity to pay the entire bill would be welcome. They should not, and in most cases, do not care to accept philanthropy in the case of education. Since it seems impossible to develop any system which would operate efficiently in the form of a sliding scale arranged on the ability to pay, the only alternatives appear to be a gradual tuition increase or a continuation of the begging policy for American education exclusive of state institutions. The solution for the self-supporting student...
...would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough handling or sudden changes of temperature it is more liable to develop cracks than one all of whose constituents dry at the same speed...
Water Power. "New York State is probably the richest State in the Union in natural power sources. . . . If private enterprise, as has been suggested, can borrow the money to develop these great resources, what is there to prevent a public corporation from doing the same thing?" Governor Smith recalled that since 1919 he had been fighting to carry out the state-control water power policy first enunciated (in 1907) by Governor Charles Evans Hughes...