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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your page on "Farmers" was most fairly and independently written and it came at a time when the entire country is much interested in the agricultural situation. There is no doubt but that we have a very serious economical farm problem and, until it is solved, we cannot hope to have a continuation of our national prosperity. We have prepared an article for the March issue of the Country Gentleman, explaining our position in the matter, which may be of some interest to you. No one can doubt the sincerity and frankness of TIME, as well as its fearlessness...
From the character of Mr. McGraw and from the representative body of men which constitute the jury for the 1927 awards, the significance of the Bok fund in the commercial world may be seen. Even those who delight in the somewhat stale pleasure of Babbitt-baiting cannot deny that economic solidity is necessary to cultural progress and that the high standards by which that solidity is maintained are worthy of perpetuation by competition...
...material gathered to illustrate this thesis is of no mean quality. On the title page the editors confess their mission. The illustrations and text bear out the promise. One who has passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate...
...work, which is to start next autumn, will be under the joint direction of the Hall executors and the faculties of the two universities. This equitable distribution of supervision cannot fail to promote an exchange of scholars and students profitable to East and West; Chinese culture will be studied through the direct medium of the Chinese tongue, and the American methods of research will in a similar manner be transmuted to Peking...
...MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby's invitation to Senator Borah to visit Europe Mr. MacDonald understands that some Americans saw in the invitation the working of the "old evil willness of Europe," and feels that...