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...Molnar's credit column cannot justly be starred with all the eulogy. The Charles Frohman Co. have created a perfect medium for the transference of his inventions. Translation, setting, costumes, direction are virtually without a flaw. Yet all of these would be valueless without the players...
...long been a familiar cry of the "many-headed" that the business and economic courses which are offered to a student in college are relatively valueless in fitting him to meet actual business conditions; and that these courses are at best only theoretical, while what he really needs is Hard Experience. This may be true; but if it is, the success which has attended the efforts of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research remains to be explained...
...Reichstag is distinctly perturbed over the fall in the mark. Energetic measures for boosting the almost valueless currency are to be instituted immediately. Laws providing for unparalleled punishment for mark speculators are also to be enforced. The Government is considering reducing the number of banks and brokerage firms authorized to deal in foreign currencies...
...judge by the number of offers from bond offices which the average senior receives in his morning's mail, the college education is not the utterly valueless thing it is commonly considered. There seems to be almost innumerable "houses" only too anxious for the addition of a few "bright young college men" to their staff of salesmen; even if those same bright young men have obtained a degree in Physics or English Literature by only the narrowest of margins...
...temporary retirement of the Premier renewed rumors of his impending resignation. People in close touch with him state that he has no intention of permanently retiring from office. Others who, with justifiable scepticism, point out that official denials are almost valueless, say that Mr. Law himself never expected to hold the Premiership for long, and that his state of health renders his position precarious...