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...success of the plan of the committee on admissions of the Dental School in restricting entrants to those who have had two year's work in a college of arts or sciences and in denying admission to students whose pre-dental work was of low grade was emphasized by Dean L.M.S. Miner D.M.D. '04 in his annual report to President Lowell...
...examination is open to all resident students of Harvard College who are pursuing a regular course of study and have not completed four years of work in a college or institution of equivalent grade. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won the contest in both 1926 and 1927, and 1928 he was awarded the intercollegiate prize in the latter year he was barred from intercollegiate competition because of his previous victory...
...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
...been studying this problem since 1921 and believes that it has discovered a means of detecting in advance men who are incapable of complying with required standards. Experiment by means of a "capacity test" has consistently revealed that over ninety percent of the men who scored below a certain grade did poor work in law school. Consequently it is felt that the "capacity test" is a reliable means of presaging a man's capability for law school work and-it will go into effect at Columbia next fall...
...newspaper tomorrow or that anyone is going to advertise in it?" Habit and a good name are the only answers that a newspaper can give the investor. These answers evidently inspire confidence, for reputable newspaper bonds are being sold with almost as low a rate of interest as high-grade industrial bonds. Scarcely a week passes without the appearance of some journalistic bond issue (TIME...