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...Baruch learned from experience all about war profiteering. To eradicate it he proposed a Federal command of still-pond-no-more-moving. "In modern warfare," he testified, "administrative control must replace the law of supply and demand. To measure inflation of price and profit we must have some norm. The obvious norm is the whole price structure as it existed on some antecedent date near to the declaration of war. . . . That determined, we need a method of freezing the whole price structure at that level. The obvious way to do this is simple: By proclamation to decree that every price...
...approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...there is no incentive to return unceasingly. The course as organized neither rises above nor falls below the average of mass instruction. It probably offers as many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much prep school discipline, and not a little superficiality of method...
Although the Freshman Jubilee Committee strayed far from the traditional norm as pointed out in a letter run elsewhere in these columns, further acquaintance with the light in which this would be received by members of the Class of 1933 has convinced those concerned of the error of their judgment. The members of the committee are to be commended for their apt appreciation of the point of view opposed to their intended move...
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston last week opened a pavilion, the Baker Memorial, whose low rates may become the norm for such hospitalization. A bed in a nine-bed ward cost $4.00 a day, in a four-bed room $4.50, in a two-bed room $5.50, in a single room $6.50. These rates supply high-grade sleeping quarters, meals, general nursing, staff supervision, but not private nursing or private medical or surgical care. They are the antithesis of those in Massachusetts General's own luxurious Phillips House* or Manhattan's new Doctor's Hospital (TIME...