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George Washington in his last, pastoral years at Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, founded a U. S. tradition: that public men, having held the highest offices, continued to serve afterward as Elder Statesmen. Presumably but some times not actually remote from politics, they were supposed to possess a degree and kind of wisdom not given to their partisan juniors...
...history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...were received yesterday at Princeton when Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bernard K. Schaefer, President of the Colombia-America Chamber of Commerce, accepted for the Latin-American table; and when Dr. B. M. Little, Regional Director of the Social Security Board, and Dr. William Waller, Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Public Health Service indicated they would participate in the discussion at the social security table...
Dean Hanford recommended student participation in the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs as "a unique opportunity," in a statement yesterday, and called his own part in the 1937 conference "one of the most valuable experiences in my work as a teacher of Government...
Things have come to a pretty pass! The girls are pretty and college boys are making passes at them. With the virtual disappearance of the goldfish from the university scene, the latest snatch of Americans concerns itself with the time dishonored custom of kissing in public. whether such a fad can be hailed as a sign of the advent of free love, or whether it is significant of the moral decay of our younger generation is indeed a question of the utmost import. At any rate, as one noted educator put it recently, "... it's certainly more fun than goldfish...