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...intellectual food to chew upon. Make the Union a place where men can get together and talk things over of consequential and substantial interest. That would do more for the intellectual life of Harvard than all the superficially imposed reading periods and tutorial systems in the world. Yes, a larger and more beautiful stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences of our undergraduates and by making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figs! | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

Half 'round the world, in huge Brazil (a land larger than the continental U. S.) another challenge to British rubberdom was being prepared, last week, by bustling agents of Henry Ford. He, grown tired of paying British rubber prices, has purchased an immense tract of land near Belem, northern Brazil, which is now being laid out as a rubber plantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Global Rubber War | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Training table represents a start in the athleticizing of the debaters. Uniforms more distinctive than Tuxedos should come next; perhaps the editors of the Lampoon would offer suggestions for delicate tones of color and graceful designs of robes. Scouts at other universities, larger and handsomer platforms, overemphasis, with squads of ambitious candidates going through their paces in every room in Sever, and English A sections changed to more debating practise: a gloomy outlook, but the unavoidable result unless the process thus initiated is checked. In the interests of already overworked sporting editors, the coaches should reconsider their decision, and call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 3/15/1928 | See Source »

...embodiment of this same effort, and they too, play a role in introducing the two main bodies of the University to each other. The semi-formal, social character of such meetings in something not to be attained even in the most intimate classes; the only pity is that no larger number of students take advantage of them. The Union and the Faculty are coming more than halfway; only where the students are unwilling to make a little effort does the plan fall through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STRENGTH OF UNION | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

Largest assets do not necessarily involve largest earnings, however. The General Motors Corporation reported for 1927 the largest peacetime earnings in the history of industry, $235,104,826. American Telephone & Telegraph, with larger assets than General Motors, earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wire Age | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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