Word: pres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not yet reached the pres ent delightful condition of prize-giving in France where, one French newspaper suggests, an author who has written more than three books without receiving at least one prize should be given the Legion of Honor for meritorious service to the State. But we may come to it. And why shouldn't we? The stones of Grub Street are still as flinty as they were in Johnson's day, when the adolescent Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette...
Still, the "Symposium", like the Intercollegiate and Silver bay conferences, is as Pres. Harding would say "a step in the right direction", and every encouragement should be offered those who have the initiative and courage to try to remedy an unsatisfactory situation. Educational methods are acknowledged to be far from perfect; and any improvements which students can suggest will be received eagerly by everyone, and not least of all by the muchabused faculties...
...light of the recent overproduction prospects for such a venture over the next decade are not promising. The great " rubber boom " in London in 1910 was followed by a spectacular list of failures. It would be a more sensible course for large American consumers of rubber to enter the pres-ent "Rubber Syndicate" and cooperate with it in a fair stabilization of prices. Brazil's own experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue...
Whatever may be the advantages of one situation over the other, it seems obvious that the problems of education in England are approximately the same as those faced in the United States. H. A. L. Fisher, Pres- ident of the English Board of Education during the War, contributes to the current Yale Review an account of his incumbency which might well have been written by an American State head of schools during the same period. The manner would be different and the names would change, but the substantial facts would be much the same...
...recent Reserve report contained data which gives an excellent perspective upon present business conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...