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Ever since universities have left the field of pure scholarship and entered into the realm of practical matters, there has been a difference, amounting almost to a hostility, between academic theorists and actual practitioners. Especially has this condition been true in the subject of economics. Professors in Economics and business men, instead of co-operating for their mutual advantage, have been inclined to frown on each others ideas. Such a thing as the Business School, which tries to combine the two, is looked down upon by both...
...Archbishop and the Pope have never met, doubtless never will; but if they should, they might well - much as great rival bankers might discuss a merger each has been trying to perform before the other-discuss the matter of the old Orthodox Eastern Church and to which realm (Rome or England) it is to be united. In his encyclical of last fortnight, the Pope earnestly beckoned to his "su-preme chair of truth" all non-Roman sects, with special aim in the beckon to Eastern Christians (TIME, Jan. 4). Well-informed as he is, the Pope doubtless knew what...
Protests against the British Raj have indeed taken the form of a "no rent" campaign which is spreading throughout the United Provinces and into the realm of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. In Allahabad, correspondents summarized their fears by guessing that "one hundred thousand peasants in hundreds of villages" met and swore collective oaths to pay their landlords no rent...
...Lord Abdicates. In Peiping (once Peking), just outside the Great Wall, Japan's "threatened offensive broke down last week the morale of young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Japan forced out of Manchuria, his ancestral realm, last September. Despairingly Young Chang abdicated his Manchurian rights in favor of "Old Uncle" Chang Tso-hsiang...
...keynote address, to Constitution Hall and there, in a voice brimming with emotion, delivered them to the assembled delegates of the President's Conference on Home Building & Home Ownership. At this great gathering President Hoover again demonstrated his ability and leadership in an unofficial activity outside the constitutional realm of the Presidency...