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...advent of the House Plan brings the tutorial system into a position of more importance than it has ever before assumed in Harvard history. But any increasing use of the tutorial system will only throw into sharper relief the present irregularities in this method of teaching...
...have found in the classics a metal that never tarnishes will go to be again confirmed. When in 1906 the Classical Club presented "Agamemnon", the twentieth century found its somber colors still unfaded under the stadium sky. In 1930 the robust comedy of Plautus will paint in lighter, sharper colors the humors and frailties of a no less common humanity...
...irregularity descended on the textile industry, Amoskeag reflected it with declined earnings climaxing in a deficit and no dividend in 1928. During this time Textiler Dumaine sifted and shifted the Amoskeag personnel, insisted upon basing production on unfilled orders. Last week, while most textile companies gloomily faced an even sharper depression, Amoskeag startled everyone by declaring a dividend of $1 per share and a 5% of salary bonus to its 10,000 employes...
Consequent to the first report of the National Commission on Law Enforcement. Prohibition last week came into sharper focus in Congress than at any time since its inauguration, ten years ago last week. The Commission's report had furnished substantial grist for the legislative mill. Of its recommendations the most important (the Commission gave it No. 1 place), the most likely to become law at this session of Congress, was that for the transfer of the Government's dry enforcement arm from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Such a transfer, as all the world knew...
...been much argument and debate on the legality and justice of American intervention, but, whatever the justice, discussion is probably somewhat academic at present in view of the fact that marines are there now and should remain until 1936. As to the methods used to obtain control, there is sharper criticism, for until American plans were carried out funds were held up and the Haitian Government was left without means to pay salaries. The National Assembly, which refused to adopt a new constitution favorable to the Americans, was dissolved, and has never met since. A new constitution, granting the right...