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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university is a group of men--a community of scholars and students--and here lies the real problem in regard to the future of all institutions of higher learning. Harvard's success will depend almost entirely on our ability to procure men of the highest caliber for our student body and for our faculty. We have been fortunate in the past, largely due to the wisdom of my predecessors but partly in virtue of the historical accident of our early development. For a long period, also, Cambridge was located more nearly in the center of the population of the United...
...justly proud but we cannot ignore the fact that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the outstanding men whom we desire. I need not stress the necessity of our having at Harvard great scholars and investigators. Our ultimate contribution to society will depend on their scholarly output and their stimulating teaching. What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success. If we have in each department of the University the most distinguished faculty which it is possible to obtain, we need have little worry about the future...
...energy of method as Mussolini and Hitler have displayed." Predicted Lord Rothermere who has long felt like playing Dictator himself: ''There will be a prolonged swing either to the Right or Left. At the next vital election, Britain's survival as a great power will depend on the existence of a well-organized party of the Right...
...government, because it would be dangerous for anyone else, to purchase the railroad plant of America during a depression. Politically, on the other hand, the transfer can be made with less friction when the railroads are losing money than when they are profitable. The crux of this matter must depend upon whether, for the nation, shipper and consumer and manufacturer, our transportation would be improved under government ownership; the arguments on either side are not substantially affected, although they may be brought into sharper relief by the fact of depression...
...float a total of $6,000,000,000 of securities the government will have to bring about relatively stable conditions in the money markets or else depend upon a popular drive like that of the Liberty Loan flotations in war-time...