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With this under their belts, Mussolini & Cabinet announced: "The Cabinet, although appreciating the efforts made by the Committee of Five, has decided that the proposals are unacceptable insofar as (in quanta esse) they do not offer a minimum basis sufficient for a conclusive realization which would finally and effectively take into account Italy's vital rights and interests...
...predicted that his mills would sink out of sight. When Mr. Fink called with his friends last autumn, the Kuhn, Loeb doors were open. Inside, the triumvirate was greeted by Partner Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws), who is something of an authority on the steel industry and the specialist- insofar as Kuhn, Loeb has specialists-in industrial financing...
...obviously futile to point out, much as one might like to, what the alumnus body should or should not do. But insofar as the alumnus reflects the spirit of what our colleges have been in the past, any effort to analyze them should aid us in our probe of the privately endowed colleges...
...success of the House Plan insofar as the participation of the students is concerned should spur the authorities on to the final settlement of other problems, a compatibility between the scaling of dining hall prices and eating at clubs, a more normal scaling of room rents, and an individuality other than athletic and social...
Those problems are brought to the fore, not through hostility to the plan itself, but because they must be appreciated and anticipated if the plan is to be successful. At the same time, the Committee's action will be valuable in the long run only insofar as each Department responds to the growing demand for introductory courses more general than technical. In the sciences in particular, a course concerned primarily with the history of science, and a study of the scientific method would be immensely valuable, the more so in a world suffering from a surfeit of loose, wishful thinking...