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Long have instrument makers striven to achieve fine tone-divisions, only to be hampered at each turn by man's clumsiness. The possibilities of the violin, for example, are limited to quarter-tones due to the breadth of man's finger...
...announcement of the new plans of the International Council cannot fail to be of interest to those who are concerned with the task of giving the foreign students of the University a pleasant introduction to Harvard life. In the two years of its existence the Council has striven to offer those men opportunities for a social intercourse which they might otherwise find difficult to get in their new environment. In this capacity it has done much to break down the feeling of isolation and strangeness with which the foreign student is confronted...
...went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana's Old Black Guard...
...Guaranty. Reaching the billion dollar class and thereby joining the National City and Chase National of Manhattan and the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago in distinction was something that Guaranty officers, clerks, bond salesmen and janitors had expected. It was something they had striven for since last September when their resources were $838,129,668. Last week deposits alone were $842,358,215. Capital of $40,000,000, surplus of $50,000,000, undivided profits of $13,377,018 and other items (notably $96,819,425 in trade acceptances) made up the $1,052,211,198. Fewer than...
...Whither Mankind" follows neither cycle. In this symposium Mr. Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view...