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...Professional Schools. Each & every College faculty member will be also a member of a Division, so that correlation between departments (i. e., a Psychology professor and an Economics professor may work together profitably whereas they rarely did before) may be furthered. To twelve deans will go all budgets: simpler will it be to handle twelve divisional budgets than the former 72 departmental budgets...
...most of us in these days of swifter and simpler transportation, not including airlines, it seems incredible that we should fall back upon the primitive expedient of digging expensive holes in the ground...
Since Harvard is the main hunting ground for Boston debutante racketeers, an article appearing in the current number of The North American Review has a definite bearing on some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony...
...have been superimposed one on another and worked into a new word that shall be the lowest common multiple of them all. These words have been chosen out of innumerable languages, living and dead, either because of some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers: by the influence of his writing...
Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...