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During the recent investigation of the bankrupt Manhattan brokerage firm of Kardos & Burke, the most notable witness was the junior partner, John Burke, thrice Governor of North Dakota and Treasurer of the United States under the Wilson administration. Mr. Burke waived immunity to come from Montana to testify concerning his...
It is rather a pitiful truth that the American college man reaches his apogee in the humanities in his senior year. From that point on he declines so rapidly that five years out he cannot talk intelligently with the average junior: ten years out with the average freshman: while twenty...
Dr. Fosdick mentioned the pitiful role our much-vaunted civilization has played in Christianizing the Far East. "We did not really recognize Japan as an equal," he said, "until she had slain her thousands in the Russo-Japanese War." Bringing matters a little nearer home, he mentioned the fact that...
To this Mr. Jim Blake, of Glens Falls, New York, writing in The Outlook, would reply that the Admiral overlooks the claims of pig iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told...
Sentiment of this sort has a large share in creating such an institution as Widener. The building itself is the memorial of a mother to her son; many of the special collections, like the Farnsworth Room and the Child Memorial, have personal associations. It will be remembered that the philosopher...