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...Thursday last Mr. Harris was requested to provide the Dean with a memorandum substantiating his statement that the John Jay Dining Hall was conducted for private profit by the personnel in charge of its management. His response was wholly lacking in proof. Mr. Harris was then invited to appear for a hearing on Friday afternoon before a full and regular meeting of the Committee on Instruction. The Committee on Instruction has no responsibility for disciplinary action...
...When the Dean states that I was requested to prove 'my statement' that the John Jay dining hall was conducted for private profit by its management, he is sadly perverting the course of truth. The only statement on which the Dean demanded proof was a short sentence published in an historical situation, and was originally made in 1931. However, I did send an explanation of that statement, complete and explicit, to the Dean. It is to be noted that the same statement first appeared in "Spectator" in 1931 under another editor, was not refuted and caused no disciplinary action...
Many new features are incorporated in both lines. All cars will all be equipped with shutter-proof glass, rear gas tanks, automatic shock-absorbers, silent transmissions, and roomier bodies...
...authors complain about the tedious slowness with which their books are printed. Catalogues and other routine work, occupying about a fourth of the yearly output of the presses, delay the publication of more important books. The proof readers of the Press are often inaccurate and a large burden of the work falls upon the writer. Because the cost of printing is unconscionably high, remuneration to the author is small or altogether lacking. Moreover the type of the books is often redistributed after a small edition is published, before there is time to discover whether demand warrants reprints...
...shows that he has achieved the honor of fellowship in the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and the more simple F. Z. S., indicating fellowship in the Zoological Society of London, with the privilege of free entrance into the London Zoo six days a week. "No proof of achievement of any kind is required of the individual who wishes to break into these scientific circles. . . . But the degrees look lovely, in a row, and to the unsophisticated they imply a lot." The leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from...