Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chandeliers, which a sister House had refused, Eliot House has harbored a certain sense of inferiority. Witness the incident of a notice posted day before yesterday, announcing a lecture by Professor "Karl" Schumpeter. Around the name "Karl", some eagle-eyed resident drew a little circle, with the cryptic comment: "Huh?" A confident Dunster or a callous Lowell would not have minded, but at Eliot House they are sensitive about such things. The notice was taken down yesterday and a new one posted: "Professor Josef Schumpeter...
...advice that the Senior Baron last week signed away 30,000,000 yen,† created by a squiggle of his august pen a Mitsui Foundation "to relieve distress among farmers and fishermen." Though Tokyo editors hailed this "largest private benefaction in the history of Japan," they made bold to comment that the House of Mitsui has been "a shining target for resentment against excessive capitalist profits." In Army circles satisfaction was tinged with comment that "the Mitsui should have given more!" Their gift last week was ten times as great as the sum they gave last year "for direct unemployment...
...from U. S. mines. The first $2,128,000 of R. F. C. debentures issued to pay for this gold were sold in the market at a discount amounting to an interest rate of .375% (compared to .22% on Treasury bills). *The Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations...
...earlier announcement, this retraction cannot come as much of a surprise. University Hall, wherever its sympathies may lie, obviously could not permit so gross a broach of hospitality, and University Hall does hold all of the cards. But the circumstances of the retraction were singular enough to make comment only just...
...perhaps none of our business if "The Daily Californian" chooses to support conservatism in a day of liberalism, but we feel it is worthy of comment when opinion in one of the largest universities in the world refers to liberal students as "unrepresentative" and "black sheep...