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...Williams place great stress on the individual as the proper unit to deal with--and if this test is adopted, then clearly the answer is not, either work or cash scholarships, but both. Some individuals undeniably benefit by the work experience, while others find it too heavy a drain on their energies. There are enough of each variety here to make it practical for Harvard to combine the two types of scholarships. Mr. Conant, by lending his sanction to the Temporary Student Employment Plan, has shown that he realizes this, and that his scholarship views are after...
...only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears; it was a shame to see the Pardways go down the drain...
...gentlemen were suspected of interest if not complicity in the Munich Bürgerbräu Keller attempt on Adolf Hitler; that, held in Berlin, Captain Stevens was "confessing" volubly to sabotage activities of the B. I. S. But for factual intents & purposes, the two simply disappeared down the drain of the Gestapo. Last week the British Government (which confided its German interests to the U. S.) asked the U. S. Embassy in Berlin to find out: 1) where Messrs. Stevens and Best are; 2) if alive, whether they are charged with a crime punishable by death...
...Tackle the same old Farm Problem, with election and drought-year variations (including proposals to economize on benefit payments, revive processing taxes in order to lessen the drain on regular revenues...
...only foreign exchange did Herr Bolten's principals seek in their naïve offering. They sought to get out from under the drain of port charges on their idle ships and upkeep of their idle crews. Allied shipping quarters last week estimated that Germany still had tied up throughout the world, 400 to 500 ships, with some 1,800,000 tons of needed car goes, which were running up charges at ?330,000 per month for harbor dues alone. To this situation could be added unrest among unpaid, underfed crews, to explain why, in recent weeks, one Nazi...