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Henry Cabot Lodge, senior U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: "In a cartoon labeled 'I Hate All Presidents,' Rollin Kirby of The New York World pictured me pointing to a placard- MY ACHIEVEMENTS-which read: 'I struck down Woodrow Wilson, I stultified Warren Harding, I betrayed Calvin Coolidge...
...impossible to comprehend the change in conditions since the war," he continued. "The cost of living has increased 98,500,800,000 times. When dealing in terms such as that, business dealings become baffling,--almost impossible. In every shop in Germany business is transacted by means of a printed placard very like a logarithm table. It is a sort of currency multiplication which varies each day as the value of the dollar goes up and the mark goes down...
...guests; numbering about 200 in all, including representatives of the Yale News, the Daily Princetonian, the Cornell Daily Sun, the Dartmouth, and the Tech News, adjourned to the Union for the dinner. During the dinner a placard is to be passed to every man for his autograph, the card to be kept as a souvenir of the occasion...
...special pains to avoid injuring the feelings of their students. In the face of discouraging facts the instructors struggle to arouse the interest of their classes, and, strange to say, they are unbelievably successful. As proof of his assertion that the department is openly hostile, Mr. Gambet cites the placard announcing the first meeting of the course. If Mr. Gambet or anyone else can construe that simple warning as an instance of the uncompromising attitude of the German Department, he must be of an exceedingly sensitive and, fortunately for the peace of the world, rare type...
...first place, it does not assume the right attitude towards the student. Proverbially one can catch more flies, with honey than with molasses and the secret of getting results from the student certainly does not lie in antagonizing him. Even the placard announcing the first meeting of German A fairly breathed forth animosity, proclaiming as it did that students not attending this meeting "must be prepared to be assigned to sections less convenient to them." Moreover there are two glaring faults in the manner of conducting the course. It is reasonably poor psychology to reassign sections on the beginning...