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...annual report to the Board of Overseers, the President devotes considerable space to the Graduate School, pointing out that, while the School provides adequate training for "the industrious, worthy men who will find an honorable and highly useful place in secondary schools or in research laboratories", it does not adapt itself to the needs of the man who in college has already shown himself to be a scholar of more than mediocre potentiality...
...then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present age and adapt it to social planning and control,* some form of Communism will inevitably be thrust upon our children. Meanwhile verbal attacks on Communism will avail us nothing...
Lateral passes, one of the Harvard mainstays in past games, which last year were carried out with supreme success at the hands of Mays and Devens, the fleet backs who seemed especially adapt- ed to this form of offensive, have not proved the source of strength this year that they were last season, and with the definite loss of Devens, today's game should also throw some light as to how much emphasis will be placed on this type of play in the future. The on new man who seems to be a likely successor to Devens as a partner...
...government of Brazil has a perfect right to buy munitions in this country," announced Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week. When Brazil's government promptly ordered ten used Curtiss-Wright planes, the U. S. War Department consented to provide, for $97.74, certain "brackets" needed to adapt the ten planes for use as bombers...
...There must be no deflection from the goal of self-government! The British Empire can only survive the fate of its predecessors, which crashed inevitably as the circumstances which created them passed away, if it can adapt itself to the new needs of an ever-changing world...