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Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of Harvard College, will then speak on "The American College of Today," and H. R. X. D'Aeth of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, will reply from the English standpoint. John M. Potter '26, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, will speak on "Harvard of Today and its Relation to Other American Colleges." He will be followed by William A. Carlile, Jr., President of the Class of 1936 at Princeton and President of the Princeton Undergraduate Council. The last event will be the presentation of insignia to Undergraduate Delegates from other Universities and Colleges...
...love at all have producers for this innovation. They object to speculators interfering in the orderly marketing of their product, perhaps some day dumping their holdings and breaking the price. Another objection from the producers' standpoint is the fact that if any considerable quantity of platinum were held by the public any arbitrary rise in price would be checked by public selling. Last week's sudden rise in platinum prices, whether or not designed for the purpose, put the offerers of platinum certificates in a difficult spot. If they sold much metal at that high price...
Paradoxically, the old Ridge Route, though more dangerous from a physical or engineering standpoint, has actually proven safer than the fine new road-all because of the excessive, often reckless, speed that is possible on the new route. REGINALD Moss Berkeley, Calif...
...From the standpoint of Benito Mussolini, however, the secret Pact of Berchtesgaden served potent notice upon Europe- by the mere fact that it had been made- of an approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...
Merely from a selfish standpoint, one wonders at TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries...