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At the age of 18 months, lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser was adopted by a wealthy couple named Bonar. At 20 he flunked out of Columbia University, returned the next year to win every money prize offered for scholarship. A lawyer by training, he had never worked in a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Surely such a method would achieve just as effective results as Dean Murdock's proposed rigid limitation of the hours a tutor may give each tutee. Moreover, it would be in accord with University Hall's professed recognition of the fact that the average student is approaching maturity. For there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORING TUTORS | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

The writer was told that the reason for the new Supreme Court Building was the fact that the old court room would not permit the placing of more than nine judicial chairs in a straight line. Be this as it may, the Court has shown that it still is willing...

Author: By El Ham., | Title: State of the Union | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

Sessions and exhibits were staged in the new Mellon Institute of Industrial Research building, a vast, square, $4,000,000 structure. Dr. Einstein would have none of that. He said he would address a small audience in a small place. The American Mathematical Society and the American Physical Society arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein in English | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Current diplomats appear to have forgotten completely their duties as guardians of international security. Lacking the broad vision of Kellogg, deprived of the stimulating leadership of Briand, their eyes are blinded by selfish nationalism to the pleas of all classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DILEMMA OF DIPLOMACY | 12/20/1934 | See Source »

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