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...gold values. It will suffice if it only is fixed. ... If some part of the debt payments to us could be set aside for temporary use for this purpose, we should not hesitate to do so. ... A reasonable period of comparative stability in the world's currencies would repay the cost of such effort a hundred times over...
Today, President Lowell passes his seventy-sixth birthday, and tonight the Vagabond will hasten to another House where a grateful generation will in some measure repay a heavy debt of hospitality...
...Head had invested his stealings in the model Twin Brooks & Hudson Fur Farms near Bangor, Me. and Twin Brooks Poultry Farm. For his plant he had bought $30,000 worth of automobiles, constructed an $18,000 laboratory, dams, a series of modern buildings. He said he had hoped to repay Socony-Vacuum out of his profits. The company took over the fur and chicken farms, put them up for sale, forbade Paymaster Head the premises, planned to start prosecution...
...soon begins to delve into the vast resources of the University. Not only does he come into close contact with the different departments scattered throughout Cambridge, but in the natural course of his search for news he makes connections with men, both prominent and otherwise, which often in themselves repay the effort of eight weeks' solid work. Nor are these acquaintanceships confined to the University, as all the News candidates are urged to obtain interviews from leading figures throughout the country. The candidate learns how to express himself concisely and intelligently when seeking news and eventually how to order...
...also justify itself on a broad social scale. The endowment for institutions of higher education in this country runs into billions; the institutions supported by the public drain large sums from the state treasuries. If this vast expenditure is wise--and we believe it is--the education institutions must repay society in the only way they can: by turning out educated men, capable of taking their place as leaders in the life of that society...