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Professor Wilson, in the initial speech of the evening, traced the history of the limitation of armaments problem, sketching its growth from the Napoleonic wars a hundred years ago to November 12 last...
...line of enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that the men who are running the world today are not as capable of their positions as they might be. Aren't such ideas apt to be mistaken? There are students who rebel at certain literary courses which occur...
...class rooms on the second floor accommodate 330 students. At certain hours in the day there are nearly this number present. It is an amusing problem in permutations and combinations to figure how many different ways 250 or more men can reach the ground in two minutes using one stairway less than four feet wide and a score of windows. Those that used the windows would have to jump. For even the artistically conceived Sever fire-escape is lacking...
...which was in the experimental stage, was completely destroyed by fire on February 20, so that it will be some time before new equipment can be installed. Another difficulty with the execution of the project is the unusual amount of radio interference. For a long time, this been a problem in the amateur field and an attempt has just been made to rectify it. A conference to try to arrange a new amateur wave length was called at Washington yesterday by Mr. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and it should result in lessening the congested system...
...Division of History, Government, and Economics. There are many obstacles in the path of such an advance. The two greatest are that the tutorial method is very expensive, and that the attitude, on the part of the tutors and students alike, is not conducive to great success. The financial problem is difficult, but it is conceivable that funds may be found, and also that many professors now tied up with several courses may be relieved of some of them where these courses could be adequately covered by reading and conference with a tutor, and so present faculty member would...