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...members of the Class of 1932 will face an important decision this morning when they gather in the New Lecture Hall to receive advice on their choice of a field of concentration. Today's activity is in the nature of an opening gun. For some thirty days Freshmen may ponder on their future range of interest. During that period suggestions galore will rain from all sides. But in the end each man must decide for himself...
...those with jobs and time to ponder questions of Empire, Mr. Lloyd George appealed by begging them to turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
...sure to go to college, kiddies, and develop yourselves the way I have shown that Peter did. That is the true secret of success. You will come away sure that you are clever and important. Ponder over it my wee ones; don't waste the opportunity. Never again will you have one to equal...
...pontificated: "It is pleasing to know that the chain of Lindbergh's ancestry stretching back across the ocean to powerful men in the North is not to be broken." Instead of sharing the not altogether delicate Brisbanal anticipation of a Lindbergh son and heir, other commentators preferred to ponder the social evolution represented in the conjunction of the Lindbergh tradition and the House of Morgan. The late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. (1860-1924) was a "radical" Congressman from Minnesota. At least "radical" is the word that J. Pierpont Morgan must have thought of when Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had leased from Columbia University a sector of Manhattan extending from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (TIME, Dec. 31), and that he had done so with a new opera house in mind. But the Metropolitan's directors continued to ponder their selection of a site...