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When Princeton University opened last autumn, its matriculants were the largest in number, the ablest in mind ever accepted. Princeton could very well maintain its standards as they are and still keep its classes up to the prescribed limit. But liberalism is increasing in the secondary schools; work is being done which does not fit in with ordinary college entrance requirements. Last week the Princeton board of trustees directed that the admission requirements for Princeton be revised. Henceforth, instead of being obliged to present 15 units of credit (each representing one year's work in one subject), a student...
Dirty weather began as soon as the ship left Cherbourg. The second day out the great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...
...last week it became known that King Albert, always a major factor in Belgian crises, recently consulted famed French Economist Francis Delaisi and said pensively to him at their last conference in the Royal Palace: "I am profoundly convinced that our civilization is at a turning point. Can we maintain it as it has been? That is the problem which haunts me day and night. Do you know, M. Delaisi, I find myself strangely preoccupied by what is going on in Russia. Is it the end of all civilization which is being prepared there? Or is it a new order...
...College. Mostly from the Middle West come some 30,000 visitors a year to brave a temperature of 10° above zero, stare at the fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget Sound region. Rarest are the snipe eel, lantern fish, lancet fish, sprakler, highbrow, and Willoughby's ragfish...
...extraordinary that he should come to us." Mr. Young told Counsel Jacobson that no questions were asked because "knowing Mr. Insull as you do . . . and bearing in mind that he had offered a note with a collateral margin of 40% which he offered to maintain and in addition endorsed the note personally, you will understand that I, as chairman of the General Electric, would not have asked Mr. Insull what he was going to do with the money." "Didn't you know by February 1932, that Samuel Insull was financially irresponsible?" asked Counsel Jacobson...