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...university, whose college maintains the tradition of a liberal education, may extend its services by giving courses for which the community about it feels a need. Such a policy demands no change in educational ideals, but it does afford a new field for their development. If it is the function of a university to diffuse knowledge and culture, a method of direct teaching by the extension system may reach the older generation more effectively than does the publication of a scholarly historical research. The degree of A. A. is not to be ridiculed...
...many will remember last year's game with the sensational punting duel between Gherke and the veteran Simendinger. The first half ended 0 to 0, then on a wet, slippery field in the second half the visitors made two mistakes and the Harvard backfield began to function until they finaly won by a comfortable margin...
...American Federation of Labor, holding its annual convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 8) proceeded to the business of grinding out resolutions. This is the main function of the convention. Literally scores of resolutions were proposed and referred to committees?95 in the first five days alone. Some of the more important resolutions proposed...
...Meyer would like to have American credit undertake this function at present. Just how far he would have Government agencies enter into and control this business is not evident. But apparently he believes that cooperative associations among the farmers can assume the major financial responsibility...
When " Al" Williams went round the course he felt sleepy. On turning pylons, his brain refused to function for several seconds owing to the terrific pressure of centrifugal force. On the last leg he forgot he had finished and went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...