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He realized that, to insure Marshall Field quality in goods, he must supervise their manufacture. So when he could not buy products that reached his standard, he made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia...
The South African mining areas, notably that at Kimberly, occur in the form of a huge vertical funnel or crater of "pay dirt" descending into the earth to a depth of half a mile or more. At first the area can be worked from the surface by the individual prospector...
Out spoke Lincoln Ellsworth, sturdy comrade and financial backer of Explorer Roald Amundsen: "General Nobile . . . was retained at a salary to act as her [the Norge's] captain, in exactly the same capacity as the captain of any other ship. ... It would be extremely unfair to [Lieut.] Riiser-Larsen...
Beneath this proposal lay the principle so often propounded by champions of "the small liberal college." The effect desired was much like the scheme which is being worked out, from the bottom up, at Claremont Colleges (Monterey, Calif.), in the creation of whose first unit, Pomona College, Harvard men have...
Section II of the report deals with the Freshman year, and principally with the problem of absorbing into the college world the various elements which compose the class. The solution, it is felt, has already been found in the Freshman Dormitory system. But the report points out that while, through...