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...favor of Remington. Now, last week, the State Court of Appeals confirmed the last decision, to the effect that Mr. Fuller's connection after 1910 with N. C. R. was an "at will" one between the parties, that Mr. Fuller could be fired at pleasure, that he could shift employers without entail...
There was a new development at Newell boathouse yesterday when Watts, last year's Freshman captain, went to the stroke seat in the first boat. Captain Winthrop moved to 6, Hubbard to 4, and Darlington to 2. This radical shift is probably a very temporary...
...going to scattered lectures today, scattered in time and in place. There is something satisfying in attending four successive lectures in the morning, perhaps it gives one a chance to shift mental gears four times. On the other hand, to a vagabonding soul, it smacks too much of law and order...
...Century by the German Jew, Moses Mendelssohn, to bring his coreligionists out of their spiritual seclusion into the current cultural life, stresses the national culture of the country of which the adherents are citizens. Its ritual is quite up to date. From the Temple pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...
...This shift of weight from chiefly rhetorical training to an introduction to literature is significant in its substitution of college education proper for preparatory school features. It presupposes more scholastic training in composition and prepares to make its further training in composition more a reflection of literary appreciation than the product of rules well-learned...