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...great publisher, is dead [Dec. 22, 1925]. Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meatpacker, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker. He and his kind have about succeeded in transforming a once noble profession into an eight percent security. May he rest in trust...
...number of these who will go into business is the lowest this year in the history of the bureau. In 1921 there were approximately 50 per cent of the graduating students going into business, but since then its popularity has steadily declined until this year only 30.27 percent chose a business career. Coming to second place from third of last year medicine increased from 13 to 16.6 percent of the number of students listed Dropping from 19 to 15 per cent law slipped into third place this year, followed by education with 10 per cent. The fields of engineering, research...
...list averages at Mid-years according to announcement from H. E. Clifford '89, dean of the Engineering School. Freshmen in the School, although living in the College dormitories, are placed on Engineering. School rank lists. This year the percentage of men who have made these grades is 21 percent, a figure considerably higher than it has been in years, and four percent over the last year's College or Engineering School count...
...TIME, Feb. 9, one reads: "All the U. S. people apologized." I beg leave to differ. If the question of apology had been left to the American people, not two percent of them would have voted for it. Would we have apologized, under identical circumstances, to the president of Liberia? Should the president of Nicaragua be miffed at some careless statement of an army officer, would we get down on our knees and pray for his pardon? Can you imagine this country debasing itself just because some petty potentate of some little two-by-four country was peeved...
That there is need for some such system of instruction is demonstrated by the findings of the recent survey which discovered that almost 25 percent of the men and women in the prissons are illiterate, and so many as 75 per cent have never advanced beyond the sixth grade...