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...this, the eight thousand men who contributed last year suggests the almost universal appreciation, by Harvard graduates, of the value of education in the social scheme, and the equally universal desire to improve and assist education at Harvard, no matter how hardly come by or how relatively small the token. Support of privately-endowed education must be more than material. It must have social and psychological props, and the thousands contributing illustrate the soundness of its foundation...
...Better token of an election-year spring than the balmy air filling the White House office, was the way in which President Roosevelt had begun to stroke the fur of his conservative critics in the right direction. Last week he gave a White House luncheon to the members of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth...
...mockery until Stark won by large majorities in 1934 and 1935. Players like him because he is fast, industrious, accurate. In a profession which usually makes popularity unthink able, he achieved another unprecedented triumph last summer when New York fans presented him with an automobile as a token of esteem. That an automobile, admiration from players and spectators, a blue serge suit and $9,000 a year are still for Dolly Stark inadequate compensations for being an umpire became apparent last week. Appropriating a privilege hitherto reserved for baseball players who consider themselves underpaid, he refused to sign...
...faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...
...High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across his knee in token that the trial of a peer is over...