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...Bankers. Search for the new leader might possibly centre along La Salle St., Chicago's banking street. Here are the Reynolds brothers, George McClelland Reynolds and Arthur Reynolds, who last September (TIME, Sept. 17) merged their Continental National Bank & Trust Co. with Eugene M. Stevens' Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to make the second largest U. S. bank. The Reynolds brothers, however, are money makers rather than law makers, and Banker Stevens belongs to the comparatively younger generation. There is also Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, onetime Texan, head of Chicago's First National Bank...
While the Governor of Sonora, Mexico, had given permission to the Fimores raid, no statement was issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
...component parts, that it is generally defined in terms of entities whose prominence shuts off the view in other directions. To the undergraduate, Harvard is Harvard College; the other departments of the University exist for him as places where the residents have nothing in common with him but a search for knowledge which is so much more intense than his own that even it is somewhat foreign...
...Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance of prominent business men. The goal of undergraduate life at Yale, according to Mr. Pringle, is to make a final club, having achieved which the young man concentrates upon more prominent acquaintances and the search for a rich wife. Princeton Mr. Pringle finds more democratic than Yale, but also infested with young men "on the make," and Harvard is better in that "charm" may be a substitute for success in student activities...
Youth is characteristically in search of subjects that have the ingredients of liveliness; subjects that appeal to their imaginations. They have a special predilection for "new" subjects; and if a new subject, no matter what its nature, can start a young man on the road to the intellectual life it is fulfilling an important function. Discipline may be provided by other courses, physical chemistry...