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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harold G. Moulton of the Brookings Institute, the most impartial and intelligent of the international investigating bodies, published his report, he came to several significant conclusions. In the first place, he pointed out that it would be cheaper to build three double track freight railroads than to develop the St. Lawrence so that ocean vessels could navigate it. He showed that the customary reckoning between railroad rates and canal rates is utterly false, in that the first puts all the costs, including the overhead, on the shipper, whereas the second places only the actual transpiration charge on the shipper...
This remark culminated an explanation of why Vienna has been in a position to develop into a Socialist unit strong enough to stand out against a predominantly anti-Socialist Austria. "The Austrian republic was founded as a state with various autonomous provinces of which Vienna became a very important one," said Dr. Kraus. "In the mind of the Austrian, Vienna stands for organized labor; the rest of Austria for the peasants and burghers. The city is identified with its doctrinaire leaders, while the peasant of the country is used to looking to the Church for leadership. Consequently it has become...
...mankind develop from lower forms of life...
Bred on small gymnasium courts, Eastern teams play a cunning, fast game, usually with spontaneous maneuvers. The larger Western courts develop long passers, elaborate strategies. Midwest and Pacific Coast play a hard-hitting game. Referees there are free-&-easy in interpreting the rule against blocking, thus favoring the offense. In New England the blocking rule is severely enforced. To a lesser degree the same is true in East, South and Northwest. Even without hope of recognized national supremacy, each league last week had a fair idea of what teams would be in the top flight for the final play-offs...
President Conant's program is postulated on the idea that Harvard's first concern should be to get the best students, rather than to develop more effective means for education those it gets. In such a program the problem of admissions requirements must take on primary importance...