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Faculty. At Bennington, the Ph. D. degree will be held as lightly as a secondary school certificate. The college will not demand it of its faculty. "And al though the faculty will necessarily be recruited largely from the younger mem bers of the college teaching profession, there will be appointments of persons . . . outside of academic life." So that its pedagogs will not incline to fustiness, no initial faculty appointment will be for more than three years. The President and trustees will hold a seven-year term of office...
...country and mankind!" Other delegates were as meaninglessly effusive. Then spoke blunt Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, famed President of the Reichsbank. Recalling the hate-pregnant past, when Belgium's Delacroix came to Berlin directly after the War as a trustee for German railway bonds and a mem ber of the commission which revised the statutes of the Reichsbank, gruff Dr. Schacht concluded with visible emotion: "I must say that the gentle and moderating influence of Monsieur Delacroix did much to remove our post-War difficulties." Humanitarians recall that during Leon Delacroix's two years as Prime Minister...
...whose chief beverage-is buttermilk. His favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...look at the case another way, to get the Harvard angle on the situation, consider what the entertainment of a jolly get together of business men will do for Memorial Hall. Think a moment, after all isn't that just what it needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first...
...committee convened, France was asking twice as much for the repair of her devastated regions as she asked last week, and Mr. Young is credited with having persuaded the Allies to scale down the bill they would otherwise have presented by more than one-sixth. Ominous Predictions. Several mem bers of the Japanese delegation, previously closemouthed and ostentatiously "neutral," expressed to correspondents their private belief as individuals that the Second Dawes Committee would soon be on the rocks...