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...conferring honorary degrees on 35 pioneering scientists and scholars, many of them now little known. Of the next 50 years, he said: "Our people should be able to look to the universities for the moral courage, the intellectual clarity and the spiritual elevation needed to guide them and uphold them in this critical hour. . . . Candid and intrepid thinking about fundamental issues-in the crisis of our time this is the central obligation of the universities...
...uphold the Treasury's hoped-for ratio of 1-to-2 between money borrowed and money collected by taxation, Secretary Henry Morgenthau said there might have to be a new tax bill in the next few months. To the Ways and Means Committee, which had just finished sweating over preliminaries for one new bill which adds $3,503,400,000 to the U.S. tax burden (TIME, June 30 et seq.), wringing another $10,000,000,000 out of the U.S. taxpayer seemed an obvious impossibility...
Hardly had the President's unsuccessful Supreme Court Reorganization Bill gone to Congress, when the Nine Old Men, themselves abdicating their power to uphold the letter of the Constitution, began scuttling the older Constitution itself-a process practically completed in the past term...
...sense of this meeting that the policy of the Harvard Glee Club uphold the University's policy that there should be no racial discrimination against a member of the club who is otherwise eligible for the club...
...poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people who in their ignorance are more apt to use it to subvert than to uphold constitutional government. Very sincerely yours, Laurence Davis...