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...newspapers assumed, seemingly without foundation, that some part of it was to be devoted to the Dental School. Whether or not that is the solution is debatable; at least, the discussion brought into prominence the evidence of the needs of this branch of the University. The modern university, to maintain its position must be preeminent in all of its branches. Otherwise, its few blemishes are all the more obvious because of the healthy condition of the rest of its makeup...
Prestige Parity. Meanwhile Italian delegation, silent for weeks, made conciliatory gestures toward the French. In an expansive moment the bearded suave Dino Grandi admitted that Italy did not really need as big a navy as the French, but she had to demand it in order to maintain Fascist prestige. Delicately he hinted that France had a colonial empire in North Africa as large as the U. S. If France would cede a little bit of that to Italy, it would maintain Fascist prestige quite as well as a large navy. The notion was greeted with frigid silence. France replied that...
...that Gas President Cortelyou has had no vacation for 20 years, works long and hard, finds recreation only in music. In this art he is as versed as in utility technique, can spot a bad second fiddle as quickly as a rising expense ratio. Although New York Steam will maintain its executives, Mr. Cortelyou will of course be its indirect boss...
...general public, the technicalities that distinguish these degrees are unknown, and only the vague idea that a graduate with an S.B. is probably learned in Science, and an A.B. in Arts, exists. But the reasoning is sound enough; much more so than the desire to maintain an outworn tradition from the time when Latin and Greek were the two poles of a liberal education. On the practical side, the present system is sometimes not brought to the attention of students in Modern Languages until it is too late for them to add the extra quantity of the humanities that would...
...would lead to "almost insurmountable technical and legal difficulties." As a reprimand to Standard of New Jersey, Mr. Holmes went on: "We believe that the general spirit of cooperation within the industry that was and is followed by producers should have influenced the principal purchasing companies to attempt to maintain crude prices until the cooperative movement had received every possible opportunity of succeeding...