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Last week President Hoover gave what he called "most serious attention" to the railroads and their financial plight. Anxious bondholders were telegraphing him inquiries as to measures and agencies to help the carriers earn their fixed charges ''across the trough of the Depression." The President assembled a list of all the means of assistance being put at the disposal of the carriers and found their total encouraging. First, there was the Railway Credit Corp. in which, for the benefit of weak lines, would be pooled excess earnings from rate increases. Next there was emergency rail...
Educational concern, an reflected in accompanying clippings from the Press still faces old problems with old bromidioms. Though democracy can lead boys to college in great numbers, educators still complain that, like the proverbial horse and the watering trough, it cannot make them think. "Too many men go to college without any real fitness for higher education or capacity of profiting by it," declares President Comfort of Haverford College. His answer to the question is a concentration on "quality rather than quantity", more individual attention to a smaller group. Other conventional panaceas are: to raise scholastic requirements before and during...
...Salisbury, Md., a cat chased a mouse down a feed trough in which James Dashield's cow was munching. The mouse jumped into the cow's ear. The cow kicked away one side of James Dashield...
That the country is in the trough of a moral as well as business depression is clearly shown by the extremely heavy wet vote cast at the polls throughout the nation last Tuesday according to the following article entitled "The Recession" written for the Crimson by Thomas N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the University...
...undoubtedly in the trough of a moral as well as of a business depression, not that there is any connection between them. The high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness...