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...atavistic throwback to the days before printing when lectures necessarily fulfilled the functions of text-books. Even when professors are careful to present something more than standard text-book material, their courses are likely to lack vitality. There is an inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency is, of course, the personality of the instructor, but too many have neglected the most effective stimulating tool available, class discussion...
...owning about one-fourth of Canada's newsprint capacity and a potential million horsepower of hydroelectric power, has stood No. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange list. Last week this honor, alphabetical only, fell upon Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store. For Abitibi was declared bankrupt, its transfer office closed, its shares stricken from the Big Board. Abitibi's troubles were only one storm-centre in the mightily troubled newsprint industry.- Another stock stricken last week was Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name of which will play an important part in all financial histories...
...gain in the number of graduate students has been most satisfactory," states Dean Clifford, "the present number being the largest in the history of the school. The falling off in the undergraduate enrollment comes as a result of the transfer of first and second year men from the Engineering School to the College, and the exclusion of undergraduate students in the School from the Houses...
Later in the fall Haines will transfer his new men from the Leviathan into barges and sholls and let them practice for races at the end of the fall season...
...could easily act as the Guild's agent. Mr. Whitney was sorry; the Senate "bear hunt" had upset his plans to travel; but enclosed was a $5 bill for the stock-a generous price. Grand Diapason Shafer remitted the shares. Recently Shafer received from Guaranty Trust Co. (Manhattan transfer agent of Burma Corp.) its check No. 905C2778 for 4?, representing "an interim dividend of 1 anna per share, plus a cash bonus of 1 anna per share, free of British and Indian income taxes, payable in sterling in London." Last week Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to know...