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With the proposal by the Harvard Dental School of a graduate educational service to provide up-to-date information on dental matters, the university is filling in one more gap in its educational structure. The Dental School's proposal is in line with the university's policy of establishing a closer and more lasting connection with the graduate's professional career...
...University game Yale was master throughout except for a short spurt by the Crimson at the start of the second period when the gap between the two teams was narrowed down to seven points. Captain Horwitz was brilliant in his team's victory...
...with all this substantial data for the protection of parents, there is still a gap in knowledge. No one has thus far sent a questionnaire to the children, and the annoyances suffered by the little innocents remains an undetermined factor. To make such a survey fair and just, and free from political corruption, moreover, is a task for the infant Hercules. But in a moment of hasty judgment, seizing on boldness, here is the advice. Let the research workers and the parents enter the kindergarten, and some youthful prodigy, it may be warranted, will make a survey to startle...
Significance. These dismissals, to insurgent Republicans and Democrats, seemed to dramatize and personalize their favorite issue of Power, to build it up for presidential 1932. They felt that the oustings were inspired by President Hoover, and served as a large and concrete wedge to widen the gap between the Administration and the Progressives (see col. 3). They recalled that the dismissal of Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1910 which helped split the G. O. P. and defeat William Howard Taft in 1912 was just such an incident at the time...
...actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest...