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Briefly, then, the prime fuction of the University is to teach its students. No other excuse for existence can possibly be arrived at. No matter how far-flung may be the empire of learning which the University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places...
...when far-flung railroads and communications will break the political stranglehold of Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes and Rio Grande do Sul and make the United States of Brazil as hard to manage as the United States of America is still remote, leaving Brazil's politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil...
...help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband bought the school in 1865 and who was its president until she resigned in 1909, aged 83. By week's end far-flung meetings of Mills alumnae, who include Mrs. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. William Edgar Borah, had pledged $252,000 to Mills's endowment drive, whose honorary chairman is Aurelia Reinhardt's friend Herbert Hoover...
...Attorney Davis was rebuffed on his freedom of the press argument he was overwhelmed on his claim, startling to lay minds, that the far-flung AP is not engaged in interstate commerce. His brilliant legal argument, his citation of prior cases in which the Supreme Court had ruled that such businesses as insurance, buying and selling bills of exchange and reporting credit standings, are not interstate commerce even though they operate interstate, were swept aside in a ruling that "interstate communication of a business nature, whatever the means of such communication, is interstate commerce regulatable by Congress under the Constitution...
Your good-natured and impartial account, (TIME, March 8), of the debate in the Senate on approving for another three years the current trade agreements policy suggests again the remarkable dearth of popular interest in this very practical aspect of our foreign affairs. In what other country with, such far-flung foreign trade and investments would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts...