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Your page on "Farmers" was most fairly and independently written and it came at a time when the entire country is much interested in the agricultural situation. There is no doubt but that we have a very serious economical farm problem and, until it is solved, we cannot hope to have a continuation of our national prosperity. We have prepared an article for the March issue of the Country Gentleman, explaining our position in the matter, which may be of some interest to you. No one can doubt the sincerity and frankness of TIME, as well as its fearlessness...
...Thus the problem is left even more than usually in the air, for Mr. MacDonald discards unreservedly "old" methods and "old" diplomacy. It would seem that all efforts at leagues, treaties, conferences, and agreements, gentlemanly or otherwise, in short at any of the adjustments commonly looked for, are bound to fall short of accomplishing their full purpose. For Europe is wily and America suspicious, and the situation becomes more acute...
Obviously the time is ripe for the advent of a new diplomacy. One might imagine, however, that this phenomenon if discovered, will probably be something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers yesterday the final settlement of the stadium problem was postponed until the next meeting of the Board on February 27. Several members of the Board expressed the desire for additional time to read the various reports concerning the proposed stadium seating plan...
...battle. In recent years, however, with the annual game coming more into prominence, the ever-growing size of the University and its alumni body, and the resultant larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace, and informed the University last autumn that this threat must be removed. Hence according to Mr. Bingham's report, Harvard must...