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...nonslip crutch with three legs instead...
...yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during the panic, cast aside their month-old minimum price crutch, limped up a penny...
Having thus outlawed commercial tutoring, the Faculty is faced with increased responsibility in regard to the efficiency of its teaching. All the faults of badly organized courses and poor instruction] which the Crimson held were cloaked behind the tutoring schools are now laid bare. The crutch of cramming knocked from under it, undergraduate teaching must stand on its own feet. For students genuinely in need of assistance the Bureau of Supervision stands ready, and it must be perfectly efficient. With its old cancer thus cut out by a final surgical stroke the College can concentrate on the endless struggle...
...days later at Hyde Park the President laughed heartily at his own remark. An unabashed lover of his own jokes, he said he had added the sentence to trap newspapermen into believing that he might seek a third term, that the effect was terrific, about as funny as a crutch, and that he had got a kick out of seeing the faces of the reporters present. Trouble with this, according to Raymond Clapper, was that few reporters had paid much attention, and that certainly few had fallen into the President's trap...
...have been tax quarrels and American Legion disturbances. But never yet in three centuries of Harvard have relations with Cambridge been in such an awful state of collapse. The current ruction has its background in the refusal of President Conant to give the city a hundred thousand dollar financial crutch. The action of the piece, however, is the unhappy participation of Harvard students in the memorial services at Weeks Bridge. As a result of this, there are signs of a storm...