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...strict disciplinarian, General Crosby prepared to carry "military methods" into his new job. A West Pointer (1893), a veteran campaigner in the Philippines, Mexico and France, he announced: "If there were no problems to overcome, there would be no job." When he said he would treat Prohibition like any other law to be enforced, everyone knew that he was saying exactly what the White House wanted him to say on an. issue President Hoover thinks has been unduly exaggerated. Bewailing the Hoover policy of "putting outsiders" in charge of local government, Washington citizens recalled the spectacular efforts of another military...
...Ohio motor accidents in the past month, Governor Myers Y. Cooper wrote a stern letter to Director of Education John L. Clifton. Said he: "It is evident that these accidents were avoidable if proper precautions had been taken." The Director of Education, in turn, urged two-man bus crews, strict vigilance at grade crossings. The dead driver of the Brook Park bus was held culpable by the coroner...
...most serious charges brought against the American university system is its failure to instill in the mind of the student the importance of the part that his four years in college plays in acquiring the proper perspective toward his work in after-life. While a strict commercial training is as little to be desired as the exclusive program of "making contracts," the pendulum should swing more to a middle ground...
...discussing his plans, Putnam emphasized his intention to examine the problems brought to him not as an adviser in the strict sense of the word but more as an expert giving the individual the benefit of his experience and the results of his study of general and particular cases in personnel work. He said that he intended following the suggestion of the Student Council that he occupy himself first in a survey of the broad outlines of the problem of career choosing...
...delegation of the U. S. was at the tail of the table on the King's right-or at least that was one way of looking at it, the wrong way. The right way was to understand that the delegations were seated in strict, English alphabetical order, beginning with "America" on the near side of the U-shaped table ,and continuing straight around to "Union of South Africa...