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Following to a great degree the plan of the Law and Medical Schools, the field of business enterprise is regarded as a profession. In the past a man "went into business" because he wasn't fitted for anything else. Today, with the intricate developments of commerce, a man, to be successful, is forced to fit himself for a special branch of business. After the first year's work in required subjects essential for the understanding of any branch of this many-sided profession, the second year is devoted to scientific research in a specialized field...
...sign that showed there had been something readable at a former date. A general appearance of carelessness about the filling of papers and magazines was evident. To members of the Union the Reading Room is a strong attraction. Many more would use if than do now, if it wasn't for the fact that it is increly a chance, if they find the current issues of the magazines on file. The Union by continuing to have a carelessly kept Reading Room is only doing itself harm, and no one any good. The number and selection of the different periodicals...
Guild pitched the greater part of the game for the uninitiate. The girls say that he is baffling, but it wasn't noticeable yesterday. Bishop, behind the bat, handled the few balls that got by the editorial Ty Cobbs pretty well, but the rest of the team was uniformly poor. Mr. Twitchell umpired pleasantly...
...choose, on those occasions I heard a most prodigious amount of well-nigh inconceivable 'rot'--no other word describes it,--there emitted. Progressiveism--gone mad, we in the United States would consider it; they call it Radicalism. To my thought it was twaddle. And it wasn't the talking of it bothered me, it was the applause the speakers got! They might have been uttering revelations of unadulterated truth to a waiting world, and their reception could have been no warmer as it was they were, in very forcible-feeble fashion, just glibly maundering...
...vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud. The other story in this number, "The Woman Who Wasn't," is no more nor less than it pretends to be--a quasi tragedy growing out of a purely physical situation...