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...fact that a student is unable to follow the events of the day in some organized lecture course is however, no reason for his ignoring them completely. Inevitably some of them will have an effect on his future life and as a result should call forth a vital interest on his part. If the New York Times contest can help to stimulate this interest, it is fulfilling a role which the college cannot adequately handle and its existence is fully justified...
Rudy Lamont Ruggles '31 of Brookline has been awarded a scholarship by the Students' International Union which enables him to study in Geneva, Switzerland during the coming summer. The award was made as the result of a competition among numerous eastern colleges and makes Ruggles the official delegate of Harvard at the Union's headquarters in Switzerland...
...carelessness, especially when their problem is an administrative one extending over long periods and concerned with large investments. The multifold philanthropy of that most generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future would doubtless cause in many cases considerable...
Though the Corporation granted permission to the Rotary International last October to stage its meeting in the old University dining hall, the information was until recently withheld from the officials in charge of scheduling the examinations with the result that full arrangements were made to conduct the tests in the hall. According to G. G. Benedict '23, Assistant Dean in charge of records, the places for holding the examinations have been changed and postcards will be mailed to the men affected by this alteration in plans...
...local taxes, $1,000,000 repairs, $337,000 for new machinery, $95,000 for moving machinery from Fitchburg to Manchester. Other items were bad debts and outlay for printing new securities. "Making up the income account in the way prescribed by the government," said the report, "the result of the year's operations is a net loss before depreciation of $583,000, and, in addition, there is a charge of $1,139,412 for depreciation. Local taxes . . . were a great handicap in such difficult times...