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...will perhaps be forgiven for reemphasizing the respective suggested cures; the Dean--abolition of the reading period, the CRIMSON--futility. In either instance a hint that the solution might long ago have been effected by shifting emphasis away from examinations would have plucked leaves from the victors wreath. The clubmen and the future revenues of Harvard are still safe. (Name withheld by request...
...admit that his or their acts were culpable. For every evil-looking act listed above they had an explanation which gave the lie to the headlines. Example: all loans made to officers were secured by collateral which was ample at the time. None of the officers have been forgiven their debts. They still owe the money and their collateral is still pledged to the National City Company. The "write-off" consisted merely in getting these frozen loans off the books of the bank and on to the books of the security company. And this was done in the interest...
...that it "will not involve a resumption of the [Allied] claim on Germany for Reparations, which it was the object of the Lausanne settlement last year to end." At Lausanne the Allies promised to forgive Germany all but 1? on $1 of her Reparations debt IF they were similarly forgiven their War Debts by the U. S., which would thus be the ultimate loser (TIME, July 18). In Washington the Chamberlain speech was ipecac last week to Senators who retched at the Chancellor's bland assertion that what he proposed is "best for the world...
...Since he contrived the self-starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven and forgotten is his classic blunder of ten years ago, the air-cooled Chevrolet motor which cost GM 31 cool millions. Nowadays most improvements in cars are originated by independent inventors, developed by partsmakers. Mr. Kettering and his research staff have carried GM into rich fields beyond the automobile business...
...orchestra, which suffers in comparison with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has given many a noteworthy concert, but for years it was a bone of contention between wealthy Jews who liked and supported hulking Conductor Alfred Hertz, and the Bohemian Club element who have never quite forgiven Hertz for displacing their convivial clubmember, Henry Hadley...