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...shaved only once a week, when the name of Princeton ranked high in the athletic world, but how many of them would give us a job if we walked into their offices dressed that way? Most of us are preparing a cultural background to stand us in good stead during a life of business, and there is no reason why we should not begin behaving like gentlemen before we graduate. The popularity of squash, tennis and golf has become so great at Princeton that measures have been taken to keep down the number of people playing these games. Should...
...adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests, learned from them a skill and precision in disputation which has since stood him in good stead. Later he was graduated from Loyola University. In the two decades he has practiced law in Chicago he has become known as one of the city's best appeal lawyers. He has attracted outside attention through his treatises on the 18th Amendment in which he emphasizes State sovereignty and the point...
...Poland. Il Duce appoints and demotes his henchmen to & from offices as Governor of Rome, taking care that no man holds power too long. Last week it was time for Dictator Pilsudski to demote from the office of Premier of Poland Col. Walery Slawek and appoint in his stead Col. Alexander Prystor...
Machines: "How universally has the true Christian spirit become impaired which formerly produced such lofty sentiments even in uncultured and illiterate men! In its stead, man's one solicitude is to obtain his daily bread in any way he can, and so bodily labor, which was decreed by Providence for the good of man's body and soul even after original sin, has everywhere been changed into an instrument of strange perversion; for dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, where men are corrupted and degraded...
...nicely articulate expression of one's own thoughts instead of the inclusive repetition of the thoughts of other men, as is usually the case in, classroom recitation, the undergraduate would acquire an ease in the use of language and in expressing himself which would stand him in good stead in post-college life. --The Dartmouth...