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This sorry tradition was established indeed at the very outset, for when Haiti gained her independence she was forced to indemnify the French planters, and in order to meet these payments she contracted a loan from France, in addition to several internal loans that she already had floated. These loans were secured by her import and export duties, which were her principal source of income. Due to he constant change of administration and the resultant corruption and bribery little was realized from internal taxes and even a large percentage of the customs went to Presidential appointees or favorite generals whose...
...moving toward these ends in an atmosphere of traditions subtly and slowly changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small now it is great. The first graduating class numbered only nine; of late commencement degrees are awarded to more than a thousand. At the outset all the graduates were trained to teach or to preach, which latter function was as much a matter of theology as the former was a matter of "the classics...
...minds of many undergraduates. The general impression is that the ultimate fate of these dormitories has been definitely settled. This is not the case. A new experiment involving so many elements and with such wide ramifications as the Harvard House Plan cannot be definitely outlined at the very outset, and the eventual disposition of the Gold Coast dormitories remains as yet undetermined...
...editorial competition of the CRIMSON is the only known way to break into the journalistic game without degenerating into a lowly journalist. Not that I wish to give the impression that editorial writers are over conscious of their calling as artists, but it is worth getting straight at the outset that there is, or should be, a conservative poise intimately associated with editorial writing. Other sides of newspaper work may provide valuable experience in being hurled out of advertisers' offices, stimulate romance through backstage interviews, and develope savor faire during flash light shots, but it remains for the editorial office...
...season. Of the 1931 squad A. W. Huguley '31, J. N. Trainer '31, B. H. Ticknor '31, T. W. Gilligan '31, S. L. Batchelder '31, C. F. Richards '31, Sumner Putnam Jr. '31, and J. H. Gildea '31 took a prominent part in the fall program from the outset of the season. From last year's Freshman squad a score more have already made their mark upon the University squad and the names of W. B. Wood '32, E. A. Mays '32, B. D. White '32, H. M. Myerson '32, and others promise to show prominently before the season...