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From a chamber of commerce standpoint no convention sugar plum is sweeter than the League of Nations. It never quite adjourns. The Permanent Secretariat teems constantly with women & young women directed by a few males. Several times a year there are big convention weeks when the Council meets, or the Assembly, or both. Moreover the League draws smart and moneyed spectators to neighboring hotels. For seven years the League plum has meant rich lickings to the Swiss city of Geneva. Suddenly, last week, President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland learned with hopping indignation that the Austrian Government is now definitely bidding...
...dried system of judging scholastic ability is deficient, such has long been the contention of critics; but improvement is being sought here by a change in the very nature of college work. President Lowell's recent remarks at Chicago, apropos of modern educational methods, represent the standpoint of a progressive teacher...
...more than of local and momentary importance." He also mentions that gradually editors of the Harvard paper have taken up jobs as cub reporters on metropolitan dailies during the summer or have worked as college correspondents for these same papers, thus further bringing to the CRIMSON the professional standpoint...
...else. She has wealth, will rear Vera in the name of eugenics. Mrs. Burnham's relatives and father, Dr. Max Mailhouse of New Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young-man-father, debated whether Vera would some day be made unhappy by whispering schoolfellows...
...made is one similar to that employed by makers of wood-cuts before the days of half-tones. The plates are to be finished in a series of handwork which, in the opinion of connoisseurs, will make them excellent samples of blue Staffordshire, and valuable from the collector's standpoint...