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...yesterday that Dr. W. H. Weston, assistant professor of botany at the University, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of the current academic year, to continue in Cuba some phases of the study and control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation...
Root, the great master of logic, the brilliant mind; Depew, the master of eloquence, the brilliant tongue, sat there together, enjoying what has come to them as the rewards of their life work. Mr. Root has never so exactly put his reward in words as Mr. Depew once did when he said: "If I am known as an after-dinner speaker, I hope I am known also as a man who works. My dinners never have interfered with my business. They have been my recreation...
...many lands of the Far East, poppies are manufactured into opium*, coca leaves into cocaine; and many men become slaves ''in bondage to the ruthless master, the narcotic evil," as Bishop Charles H. Brent of the U. S. so aptly puts...
...much to develop in him the curious individuality which has always been his notable characteristic. At 18, he was apprenticed to a marble worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study of Art. There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time on, his success was assured. His reputation gradually swept Europe. The chief characteristics of Mestrovic's work are a rigid simplicity of line; draperies falling in straight close folds; hard, grim faces; heads sunk low or crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms...
...case book system consists of requiring the students to master the facts and legal principles of the leading cases, as actually adjudicated by the courts, of the subjects under discussion. The so called textbook method consists of studying the works of the recognized legal authorities, such as Blackstone's Commentaries, Minor's Institutes, Kent's Commentaries, Story's Commentaries and Greenleaf's Evidence in their revised editions; and the works of numerous other more modern writers, such as Williston's Contracts, Wigmore's Evidence, Pollock's Torts...