Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average undergraduate will not be surprised at the content of President Conant's dictum on the liquor situation in House dining halls. This much may be startling,--that the president has seen fit to address the undergraduate body directly on a matter of this sort; for in the past it has been the custom to hand over such rulings tacitly to underlings, to have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate...
...commodity is determined by the Supply & Demand for it along with the Supply & Demand for gold. Since to raise prices means to reduce the value of the dollar, Dr. Warren demanded to know whether trying to reduce the value of the dollar and still maintaining its gold content at 23.22 grains was not the equivalent of raising oneself by one's bootstraps. Accordingly he prophesied the failure of credit expansion, of domestic allotment and other price- raising schemes, prophesied continuance of drastic depression from three to nine years longer unless the U. S. abandoned its gold standard, revalued...
...opposition of the hard money men was getting organized. Day after the ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them...
...Bliven feels that uncontrolled, disastrous inflation is unlikely, since up to now we've had no real inflation, but merely a reduction in the gold content of the dollar. This in other countries has been the end of inflation, not the forerunner. Charging that the people who are now raising the cry about the danger of uncontrolled inflation are creditors trying to protect their own interests against debtors, Mr. Bliven said that to him "it is unconceivable that the richest country in the world should go in for uncontrolled inflation. I don't believe the gold buying plan amounts...
...contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...