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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When is another Cortes to assemble? Dictator Primo de Rivera virtually declared "Never!" in answer to this question last week, by announcing that next September there will be convened a new National Assmebly (not the Cortes) for the purpose of drafting and proclaiming a new Spanish Constitution...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...
...life of the larger universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial answer in which the blame was shifted to the general student body...
...Judgement and courage," came the answer, "and that combined and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness or 'gumption.'" When the visitor then remarked triumphantly, "You can't teach those," the response. Dr. Gay is reported to have said, was obvious: "Does West Point training help in making successful Army officers?" And the visitor replied. "I see your points" Professional training, Dr. Gay concluded, cannot guarantee the production of Napoleons and Lees, but, as in medicine, law, engineering and other professions, so now in business, such education has come to be regarded as fundamental...
...they could be taught, Professor Gay told of the skeptical business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the School in its early days. The visitor asked what, apart from a certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business. The answer was: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness of 'gumption'." When he said triumphantly, "You can't teach those," the response was obvious: "Does West Point training help in making successful army officers?" He said "I see your point." Professional training cannot guarantee...