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...been suggested that the staff might be able to give left-overs to needy families, but there is little which is suit-able for this purpose. We buy our foods in large quantities, but we do so very carefully, with the foresight gained from past experience, as to how much we need and how much we can use. As a result waste is reduced to a minimum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $70,000 Profit in Dining Halls Last, Year Seven Percent of Total--Westcott Denies Waste Food Available to Needy | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder, he outlines, for the guidance of those who must carry on, the foundations upon which his work has rested and upon which theirs must rest, if it is to fulfill the ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...other depression has the Government taken a hand. But this time, after the first shock, in the autumn of 1929, the President called a conference of business leaders. His concern was for the working people. . . . The President's foresight and prompt action upheld the wage scale for a year and a half in the face of constantly diminishing profits. Then the Government created emergency jobs for workers who otherwise would have had none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hughes v. Brandcis | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: First | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...growing participation of the college man in politics will make politics cleaner," said Joseph B. Ely, Governor of Massachusetts in an interview last night. "Politics and the administration of city, state, and national government need the foresight and culture that the college man will carry to them. The college man has had the best advantages of education, and with that background his ability to understand public questions should be greatly increased. It is this understanding, culture, and sense of fair play that the college bestows upon a man that, when taken into political life, will render politics a cleaner institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELY CALLS COLLEGE MEN INTO POLITICS | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

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