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...bill to establish a supreme war council will be discussed in Congress today. Although the Administration objects to its passage, yet many men in both House and Senate favor the measure. The plan, in short, is to establish a board of about three members, which will supervise and co-operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover...
...this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim, to insist that the utterances of its many professors are in their essence expressions of personal and not of official opinion. The justice of this position, as it obtains in colleges which have not sought to establish a censorship, is one of the chief points emphasized by President Meiklejohn of Amherst in his recent paper on "Freedom in the College...
...developed the military airplane to a remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom...
...University Corporation has announced the receipt of securities to the value of $89,946.50 from James Byrne '77, of New York City, to establish the "Byrne Professorship of Administrative Law." The securities are the first payment towards a total foundation of $150,000, which was given originally when the Law School started last spring its campaign to obtain a million dollars. The securities in the meantime have been transferred to the University Endowment Fund...
...reporter yesterday afternoon. "I believe that such a system should be put into force at once as soon as Congress can pass the necessary legislation. We should not wait until the end of the war in the meantime fighting Germany with our present military organizations, but we should immediately establish a system such as has been adopted in Switzerland and Austria. The United States has taken on a contract to reinstate Belgium and Poland, and recently, by message of President Wilson, to free Roumania from Austrian control. This is a vast undertaking, but we must fulfill it. Of course...