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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceed within the next two weeks. . . . This enterprise will pay dividends to the present and future generations. . . . More important will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans who are walking the streets and receiving private or public relief would infinitely prefer to work. We can take a vast army of these unemployed out into healthful surroundings...
...girls here just don't go for Harvard men any more. They prefer 'em grown...
More heavily gold-backed than Dutch banknotes are Swiss, which had last week a gold cover of 175%. Unlike Dutchmen, Swiss are indifferent to gold coins, prefer banknotes. Next in rank among European countries on the gold standard last week were France which last reported a gold cover of 77.65%, Belgium 57%, Poland...
...speech in the Lowell House Common Room last night under the auspices of the Harvard Inquiry. "This, if it is not allowed to exceed the amount of private deposits, is not inflation. It is merely issuing paper on the money which people have hoarded in Banks, or, if you prefer, it is exchanging one kind of money for another...
...Some of my best honor men have not found the subject until the Sophomore year and have not awakened to recognition of their own power till their Junior year. Dare we risk losing such men even though to find them, we must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...