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...industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that the quickest way to secure governmental regulation of any industry, and thus further public interests, is to foster the growth of monopolistic power have been proved specious too often to bear reapplication...
...Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, in a speech to the Reichstag, sounded a new tune on an old trumpet by remarking that "the quickest solution of the reparations problem is the solution that suits us best...
...University has no class rushes or mud-battles, considered in many colleges the quickest and surest way of bringing a class face to face. The traditional Harvard man is supposed to feel that he has outgrown that sort of thing. If so he has forgotten, in his maturity, to find a satisfactory substitute for the fellowships of the free...
...There has now developed a cooperation between the representative, the foreman and time study department, the representative acting as a sort of buffer, showing a desire to have the work done in the quickest method and on machines that were suitable for it. We've always made them that way,' is now seldom offered as an alibi, under the close analysis given the job by the combined efforts of this cooperation...
...acknowledge your courteous letter in which you ask me to express an opinion as the causes of what you evidently think is a rather general belief that a Harvard education tends to make a man a snob. The quickest and best way to answer your question is to say simply that I neither think it does nor do I think that there is any such general belief. I know nothing of the alleged "hostility" to Harvard either in the west or elsewhere to which the editorial from the CRIMSON, which you so kindly enclose, refers, and I am disinclined...