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...attempting to avoid the charge of paternalism in this matter, University Hall has been guilty of neglect. If freshmen are to make an intelligent selection, they must be enlightened concerning the various fields of concentration offered. The University might sponsor a series of lectures, given by representatives of each department and organized somewhat along the lines of the present freshman hygiene course. These lectures would provide the definite information without which choice of a concentration field can be nothing but speculation...
Board of Trade Walter Runciman, one of the Empire's greatest shipping and industrial tycoons, went out to bleak Penzance and told an audience of sturdy Cornish constituents that President Roosevelt's neglect thus far to stabilize the dollar has jeopardized his chances of succeeding with...
...simple code which could be put through quickly and which would accomplish precisely what President Roosevelt wanted-raise wages, shorten hours, increase employment. Next he demanded some assurance that there would be labor and consumer representatives on the Retail Code's administrative board and its local committees. Neglect of consumers, he warned, was likely to be disastrous. And then Mr. Percy took a look at the disputed Article VIII: "If retail groups can fix prices at ... cost plus 10%," reasoned Mr. Percy, "they may logically raise the margin to 15%, 25% or even higher. The adoption of such...
...overburdened with work they might well think of him, who in this, the first year of his administration, must begin studying not only the Business School, but the Law School, the Dental School, and all the other departments which his many years' specialization in chemistry had led him to neglect before...
...between Japan and the United States, long considered possible, will then be inevitable, projected by our neglect of our rights and duties as a nation, by our dull indifference to our public welfare, and by our shortsightedness in not seeing the obvious menace which has been impending...