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...position of Adviser in Religion, even as improved by Mr. Harris, is not worth its salt, but something along similar lines definitely is needed; the obvious method of attaining to this improvement is to reorganize the advisory departments of the University in general, removing any sinecures and any overlapping positions which may exist. Such places as that of the consultant on Careers are of little real use, and might well be incorporated into a better calculated and expanded position; the baby deans, while they are effective in handling the cases of academic routine, and in issuing threats against offenders...
...greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright in action. What has made them works of art and at the same time given them market value is the conviction with which their creators seize upon Irish life, portraying it on the stage with truth and sympathy. As important...
...sureptitiously into a sordid room. A child, not much older than three, indifferently sucked its index finger; a woman, with delicate almost mask-like features brushed her hair, occasionally glancing at the child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting on a crummy stool, whittled whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly pointed teeth protruded. His uncovered muscular arms turned with his body as he lowered his head. Two calloused hands held a large...
...railroads the sum of $365,782,843 with which to meet taxes, hire workers, pay off creditors, replace equipment. If these loans are not repaid the U. S. Government will some day find itself the proprietor of most of the railroads in the land. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last year Franklin Roosevelt put the carriers on notice that they could not look for an unlimited flow of credit from his Administration. He was ready to help them through the slump but they, in turn, must accept more drastic Federal supervision...
Alice Brydon Ritchie, widow of Harold F. ("Carload") Ritchie, famed Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...