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Professor Frankfurther of Harvard has recently quoted a passage from John Maynard Keynes that goes to the root of the matter. 'It seems clearer every day', writes Mr. Keynes, 'that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the Love of Money, with the habitual appeal to the Monday Motive, with the social approbation of Money as the measure of constructive success...
...Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished Dr. Compton, not to Princeton, but to Panama and Peru on cosmic quest...
...principles) may join as General Members. More selective are divisions of Executive Members and Academy Members whose number (self-perpetuating) is limited to 33. President of the Society is President Charles Leo O'Donnell of the University of Notre Dame; vice presidents include Agnes Repplier, Aline Kilmer, Theodore Maynard. Last month the Catholic Poetry Society adopted a constitution, last week in Manhattan held its first public meeting. The Society's headquarters are next door to those of America, urbane Jesuit weekly whose literary editor, Father Francis Talbot. S. J., is chaplain to the Society. A onetime English teacher...
...ever climbed. That was why, instead of rear wheels, the cars had tractor bands, why a heavy tanklike arrangement with auxiliary bands was mounted between the front wheels. On the expedition were a dozen men, including one American, the National Geographic Society's Dr. Maynard Owen Williams. For their use & comfort the cars carried stationery, typewriters, archives, maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition, field glasses, compasses, sound picture equipment, botanical, taxidermy, archaeological, meteorological and geological supplies & equipment, wireless sets, a kitchen, an electric power plant, suitcases, shoe boxes, beds, tents, washstands, folding chairs, three-legged stools...
ESSAYS IN PERSUASION-John Maynard Keynes-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).* When England in 1925 returned to the international gold standard only a few economists, generally conceded to be crazy, bewailed the fact. Most famous of these few was Cassandra Keynes, as he calls himself, as his opponents love to call him. Writing with such style and pith that even runners may read and understand, he has here collected "the croakings of twelve years." Most of his earnest persuasions, that persuaded few people at the time, have turned out to be dismal prophecies. Specimen (1921): "The unwillingness of American investors...