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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although its effect on commodity prices inevitably is manifested more slowly than its effect on the stock market, this increase in re-discount rates apparently has begun to exert some influence on commodity prices. It appears probable that within a few months commodity prices will start downwards toward a level that is more nearly normal. This will mean not only a relief to consumers, but also better labor relations and in the long run a sounder basis for business than now exists...
Harvard, however, will suffer two irreplaceable losses as starters DeNunzio and Joel Friedman will graduate this spring. The duo has been the backbone of the team on its rise on the regional as well as national level...
...11th-hour comeback adds an extra level of excitement to any game...
...must be obvious to the least informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth...
...national government can not be raised to any higher level of efficiency until that government has become a government of experts. In any one generation, the number of men who are called upon to take active part in the national administration is very small. It behooves us to have ready for the responsible positions of government men with only the most complete training and intellectual development. Even though the entire electorate of the nation be equipped with intelligence of a high order, the functioning of our governmental institutions will halt and stagger unless the most brilliant men of the nation...