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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent address at Amherst on Saturday logically supplemented by his annual report to the Board of Overseers, President Conant has dealt with some of the fundamental problems of higher education. In his statements of the principles that should govern research and instruction in a university--principles of freedom and liberalism--and in his specific plans for the immediate future of Harvard he exhibits a wisdom and depth, of understanding that are truly admirable. In one aspect of the Report to the Overseers, the recommendation of "professors without portfolio," this understanding of current educational problems is particularly evident...
...decimating the 5,000,000 inhabitants of that tea-growing island off the southern tip of India. Last week's dispatches mentioned 250,000 cases, 3,000 deaths in a single district. In some villages nine out of ten people have been stricken. What the British administrators who govern Ceylon as a Crown Colony mostly fear is that the Ceylon epidemic may spread to the Indian mainland and rouse a plague like that of 1908 when in the Punjab alone 3,000,000 people died of fever...
...unfortunate that our previous editorial comment concerning the selection of a new coach has been construed as a personal attack against Mr. Harlow. Having no such intention, we were solely concerned, as we have been all fall, with the principles which should govern the conduct of Harvard football. That there may be no further misunderstanding, we feel it wise to outline these principles...
...whatever; its pay-as-you-go policy has paid for all State highways and for the $10,000,000 State Capitol. Nebraska's freedom from debt is due, however, to statutory restrictions on the issue of bonds. Nebraska has had to leave her problems entirely to her local govern ments. Sales taxes, income taxes or some other new taxes are necessary both to save the schools and finance relief. Engineer Cochran insists on one thing : the gasoline tax shall not be diverted from the care of roads...
...Lloyd George in his younger days who saddled Great Britain with the Income Tax Act. Today at 71 he hopes to stump up enough enthusiasm for his New Deal to be called to power in coalition with a Labor Government after the next general election. "Labor will win a big electoral victory," declared Prophet Lloyd George, "but will be unable to govern effectively . . . alone. ... I am ready to co-operate...