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...experience of the seven Houses during the first year of operation under the plan as a whole has been such as to give us a clearer idea of the effects of the now arrangement upon undergraduate life from both the educational land social points of view. The living and eating conditions of about 1700 upper classmen have been improved as compared with the situation existing prior to 1930. The libraries have been used to the fullest extent. A more suitable environment has been provided for the carrying on of tutorial work, since the majority of students are assigned to tutors...
...Hindenburg-Hitler negotiations which began with their "extraordinarily cordial meeting" fortnight ago continued last week through an exchange of formal letters which Berlin wits dubbed "the game of questions & answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies...
Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...that his end was written when Sosthenes Behn, Chairman of International Telephone & Telegraph, with all the deliberateness of a Dane, refused to believe in the sly Swede; and when Gordon Rentschler, astute president of National City Bank, stood by Mr. Behn and asked Ivar Kreuger for facts, more facts, clearer facts...
During the prosperous years of 1928 and 1929 the field of Economics was flooded with men who thought they would get this sort of practical training. The decrease in its membership which is coincident with the depression, may logically be considered a result of a clearer view of what the field really has to offer. Fewer men are going into the department under the misapprehension that they will learn practical business methods...