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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Acting Dean of a great cathedral: "War cannot go until the sweatshop goes. War cannot go until the opium dens and bucketshops go; war cannot go until the fevered cruelty of much business competition goes . . . until churches learn to tolerate each other without jealous rivalry. . . . The seed of war lies in the soil of the soul...
...some extent, the Straus survey is borne out by the Dodge figures for awarded building contracts. In October, the latter amounted to $410,000,000, which is 19% over the preceding September, and 14% over October, 1923. Rentals here in general held up fairly well. The landlord must, however, learn one important economic truism. He may hold up high prices for a while, without profit or at a loss to himself. But high prices encourage production, which sooner or later produces an unusable surplus, which in turn reduces prices again. The longer artificially high prices are sustained, the harder will...
...with alarm a growing assumption of power by the Corporation, and a corresponding lack of willingness to admit the right of participation on the part of the Faculty and the graduate and undergraduate bodies in the business which concerns the College and the University. It has been impossible to learn of plans for the future or of motives for action already taken...
...using Esperanto as an introductory language instead of Latin. Will they find many speakers of Latin at Harvard? Perhaps they wish to enter into relations with their neighbors of Chekoslovakia, Poland, Ukrainia, Russia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Greece, not to mention the Baltic and Levantine nations. Why learn English, French, and German? Esperanto is sufficiently spread throughout Eurasia to make it practical to give one year of school time to it, instead of giving ten years to learning national idioms...
There is no attempt being made to boom Esperanto as a college study in America, and for the present no such attempt is contemplated. It would, however, pay every Harvard student to learn enough Esperanto for conversation and letter writing. In addition to his smattering or reading knowledge of French, German, Russian, or Japanese. Norman W. Frost, '08. E. E. A. delegito, por Cambridge...