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...American culture, to its students, and it appears to be succeeding. However, care must be taken to keep these non-liberal courses such as Military Science or Aerial Photography, as subsidiaries to the liberal arts courses. Once they are given too important a place in the University, they will engulf the other courses and Harvard will no longer be a liberal arts school...
Where General Johnson's bullyragging and President Roosevelt's patriotic pleas had failed, 30,000 determined coal miners in Pennsylvania scored a major success for NRA last week. Only after they defied their union leaders and started another strike which threatened to engulf the industry were mine operators sufficiently terrified to sign a soft coal code...
This is the gist of an argument as familiar as it is logical--pathetically logical because pragmatic considerations engulf the ideal. It is a stirring claim that for the good of society the college should provide for these men. But, disregarding the physical difficulties of a rapid expansion, the services involved would cost a great deal of money. And in the minds of any college governing board, the responsibility to regular undergraduate and graduate students, a responsibility which it is infinitely difficult to maintain intact in times of depression, is more urgent from the point of view of proximity...
...Sham." As Dry as ever was Candidate McAdoo early last year before the Wet wave began to engulf national politics. At that time he solemnly pontificated: "Relegalizing liquor will not put food into a single hungry mouth. ... To make liquor the chief plank in the next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared...
Board chairman of New York Trust, Banker Buckner is an old hand at cooperative banking. He headed the Clearing House Committee when its members promptly offered to lend up to 50% on deposits tied up in the defunct Bank of United States. When the torrent of failures threatened to engulf a large part of the banking system last autumn, he was picked for president of National Credit Corp., which buttressed frozen institutions until organization of the R. F. C. Last week National Credit Corp. retired another $19,000,000 of its outstanding notes, bringing the total repaid to subscribing banks...