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Certainly this general aim of making it possible for any brilliant man to come here is entirely to be praised. In this period of financial distress more than over before there is a very great danger that men who are capable of noteworthy contributions to the intellectual life of the University will be unable to make the trek to Cambridge. But there is one unfortunate aspect to this policy: the entire stress is being laid on concentrating small funds into a few large ones. This is like putting all one's eggs in one basket. It would be well enough...
...typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...function as a progressive educational unit the University Film Foundation has suffered a gradual financial decline which brought it this year to the point of cessation. Fortunately the University has averted immediate death of the organization by taking it over as a subsidiary and alleviating its financial distress. This move was, however, accompanied by a declaration that the distributive work of the Foundation would be cut to the minimum and active production of films completely stopped...
While the desperate father is on the verge of committing suicide, the other members of the family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...
...other has appeared in Australia. The first plan is politically feasible for use in this country, it is economically unsound; and that although the second plan is economically sound, it is perhaps not practical in politics. Having stated that relatively little could be done to alleviate the economic distress in this country by the use of such plans as mentioned, Dr. Mason at the same time expressed the belief that we were emerging from the depression...