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...many of the advisors are unfit for the job, and poor organization serves as a defective driving wheel. Freshmen themselves are partly blameable for the first fault, incompetent men. They demand from their advisors the voluminous ever-changing rules governing courses, and are bitter if the instructor makes the smallest mistake in the facts. Dean Leighton has found that the older professors--the best advisors who take the most effective interest in the students--will resign if held accountable for laws better picked up at University C. If Freshmen were less insistent that reknowned scholars know in what exam group...
Only 939 Freshman registered at Memorial Hall yesterday, thus making the Class of 1940 one of the smallest that has entered Harvard in recent years. Sixty-six transfer students brought the total up to 1005 new men, but this was short of the 1081 admitted. It is expected that about 70 additional Yardlings will register tomorrow...
...this during the year to bring the balance down to about $1,100,000,000. And the Treasury would borrow only $750,000,000 of new money. Therefore the public debt, which rose $5,077,650,889 last year, would this year be upped only $410,000,000-smallest increase since the beginning of Depression...
...over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism at the trial last week of anything ever done by Joseph Stalin...
...normal: 2,500,000,000), smallest since 1881. Buyers scouring the country for corn were finding that farmers were not selling, needed far more feed than they had grown. Husking bees had been postponed for want of ears to husk. And in the Chicago grain pit, traders suddenly realized that outstanding sales of corn for September delivery were double the supply in terminal grain elevators. Suddenly corn bounced up 3⅞? per bu., nearly the full 4? limit allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade...