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...necessity from their innate nature place difficulties in the way of their inclusion in a column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures the subjects of which happen to catch their interest. It is a matter of comparative case to find subjects in History, the Fine Arts or Literature which may be listened to with profit and pleasure by those having only a very general background of knowledge of the subject. In the sciences it is almost impossible...
...college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...more than $10,000,000 left of the $75,000,000 received from the bonds which Kuhn, Loeb & Co. recently sold for his company (TIME, Dec. 5) and last week he was bargaining with Inland Steel officials. Said he: "The negotiations have reached a stage that anything might happen, but a merger is not likely." Nor is a purchase impossible...
Ships of war, built to destroy, always look proof against destruction, especially in dock or at anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
...advisors only. Far too many of the men who perform the onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas which was adopted years ago and has been firmly cemented by the passage of time. If the student's own plans and tastes happen to coincide with those of his advisors, everything goes smoothly, but woe to him who has ideas...