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...reducing unnecessary waste. But the Italian Government has found a way equally adequate and far more beneficial to the community. A decree has been issued at Rome that on and after April 8 newspapers shall be restricted to two pages. At Nassau in the Bahamas, for many years a digest of the world news in two pages was the only form of newspaper issued; and this brief journal served with complete satisfaction to keep the populace informed as to the world's progress...
...undergraduate's field of concentration." The questions will cover not only what has been imparted in the several courses, but the subject as a whole. Out side reading will form an important part of the student's preparation, and one of the prime requisites will be an ability to digest knowledge and present it effectively. "The aim is to fasten attention on the subject as a whole, rather than on isolated fragments of it; to lead the student to co-ordinate the information he obtains." The scientific method will doubtless still be observed; special reports and theses will still form...
...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...
...courses. This is undoubtedly his own fault to a large extent, but the courses and the system underlying them are also responsible. Students fail to link up their outside interests--even the intellectual ones--with their lectures. Some men have far too many activities to be able to digest them; others do not know what to do with their time. The proposed division of activities at Yale, which is outlined on another page, shows an effort to establish a balance...
...speakers of nation-wide reputation have been secured for the occasion. They are James M. Beck of New York City and John R. Rathom of Providence, R. I. The former is probably chiefly known by his book "The Case Against Germany," which is a lawyer's digest of the propaganda that the Imperial government has carried on in the United States, as evidence 1 by the revelation of German diplomatic communications. Mr. Beck is one of the most prominent leaders of the American Bar and probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary...