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Unfortunately, the plan did not prove quite so simple in operation. All banks, since they were guaranteed against failure, loaned money right and left to everyone in sight. The wiser and sounder state banks took out national bank charters and thus retired entirely from participation in the program. In the wave of deflation during 1921 the remaining guaranteeing and guaranteed state banks met their Waterloo. The fund was wholly too small to pay off the depositors of the scores of insolvent banks in Oklahoma, and now the whole law has been abolished. Legislators are wiser, and depositors are poorer...
...their instruments of play instead of chessmen or cards. At Yale they are not talking of keeping the coaches away from the game and letting the players play it for themselves. This would, of course, give an advantage to the older and larger institutions with a longer and sounder athletic tradition; but it may be a suggestion in the right direction. Modern tendencies are illustrated by the outcry at Pittsburgh over Major Warner's new contract with Stanford. The collegians take this as seriously as if, for example, the French, impressed by Mr. Hughes's showing at the late conference...
Often in the past the value of the student advisor system has been questioned, in many cases, justly. This year, an effort has been made to secure the cooperation of the Student Council in organizing the work, with the result that the plan starts on a sounder basis than ever before. But without the cooperation of the men appointed as advisors the system is bound to fall...
...opinion the second will constitute a sounder yard-stick of success than the first. The Conference will and should accomplish something under both heads. It will almost certainly arrange for at least a temporary reduction in naval expenditures by Japan, Great Britain, the United States. A failure in this respect might well be fatal to President Harding, It would disappoint the public and damage the prestige of the administration to such an extent that the American delegation will avoid it at any cost. The Conference is also likely to draw up a form of words about the policy of foreign...
...opinion the second will constitute a sounder yard-stick of success than the first. The Conference will and should accomplish something under both heads. It will almost certainly arrange for at least a temporary reduction in naval expenditures by Japan, Great Britain, the United States. A failure in this respect might well be fatal to President Harding, It would disappoint the public and damage the prestige of the administration to such an extent that the American delegation will avoid it at any cost. The Conference is also likely to draw up a form of words about the policy of foreign...