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Acquiring a technique in one branch of study is in great measure a matter of practice and requires both time and concentration, two requisites which the college student is hard put to it to muster. When the undergraduate comes to college he has slight maturity and little knowledge of the direction of his tastes and talents. To demand professional grasp at this itme necessitates the immediate decision as to his field and forces him to penetrate into it to the exclusion of almost everything else...
...there is not known. One low guess was $30,000,000. But then $100,000,000 has also been mentioned. It is certain that the big Nitrate Cartel will fight hard to prevent Allied from extracting profits from its Hopewell investment; it is certain that in Hopewell Allied will muster every corporate war-machine which it has assembled behind the dark cloud...
...them. This year, for the first time in a decade. Wets have made sufficient gain in the primaries, with more in prospect in the election, to feel that a turning tide of public sentiment is at last in their favor. Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes of their leaders are looking for results not in the 72nd Congress but in some Congress to follow, perhaps ten Congresses from now. Men like...
...Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...
...great State of California, last week definitely placed himself at the head of the tiny Senate army opposed to the treaty. He commanded about a dozen votes. To beat the pact, he needs 33 (one more than one-third of the 96 Senators). To gain time to muster new recruits, "Captain" Johnson demanded, apparently without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than they were at the Senate's general apathy. Up to last week...