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...without the control of style, the aesthete intent on whetting his own sensibilities sinks into a condition of hazy introversion, characterized by flowing hair and a precieux smirk. In order that students may derive the greatest possible benefit from the objective view, the Fine Arts Department might look with profit to the example of History and Literature. A new department, History and Fine Arts, is not inconceivable. At present it is a crying need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINE ARTS | 2/11/1933 | See Source »

...base the requirements of the M.A. degree upon a thorough examination in the field. This practice of giving general examinations to graduate students would not only permit the particularly gifted men to attain more quickly to the higher degree of the Ph.D., but would enable the others to profit by the general knowledge of the field acquired in meeting the requirements for the degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE M.A. DEGREE | 2/8/1933 | See Source »

...semicircular belt system connecting New England and Baltimore, to distribute Midwestern products to seaboard. This again stepped on too many toes. He was ordered to sell his interest in the Wabash (now in receivership) and Lehigh Valley, which he did, to the Pennsylvania, at $23,000,000 clear profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lion of Nassau Street | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., maker of one of the four best-selling 20-for-10? brands (Twenty Grand), announced a net profit for 1932 of $1,416,952, more than double its 1931 profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Troubled Smoke | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...horrid hint of "blackjacked" advertising, Broker-Age snorted ridicule, replied that its admen have been expressly enjoined to base their claims strictly on circulation. Also Broker-Age insisted it does not seek to make a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Insurance Press | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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