Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third week of last month Seymour Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparation Payments, perhaps the most powerful official in Germany, penned a stern, firm, yet friendly warning to the German Government that its extravagances were endangering the fiscal equilibrium of the Reich and imperiling the Dawes Plan...
...Government at first denied the very existence of the Gilbert note. Later on it admitted that it had asked for a report, but minimized its importance. Finally, driven into a corner, it promised publication, but warned all those who were expecting revelations of critical financial conditions that they would be disappointed...
Last week the note was published. Far from showing that the Reich's financial ship was sailing smoothly and serenely, Mr. Gilbert bluntly asserted that the whole fiscal system of the Reich, together with reparation payments, was imperiled by ill-considered overspending and overborrowing. Said he in the opening paragraph of his note...
...Norton Chair of Poetry was endowed two years ago in honor of the eminent art-lover by the late C. C. Stillman '98, and was held last year for the first time by Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford...
...rational ordering of each student's curriculum. We talk vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind has not the unity of a poor house beef stew.....Many students at Yale are not sure of what they are majoring in until the end of their Junior year. Some do not find out until they graduate. Some never know...