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Traditionally critical of the rest of the world, Harvard men occasionally scrutinize Harvard, say sharp things about themselves and their traditions.* Weightier than most critiques during the year is the senior oration at Class Day exercises. Excerpts from last week's oration by Senior Orator Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg...
...site where the original bank stood in 1799, the Bank of Manhattan Building bears soaring tribute to the four men (Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of Manhattan Co.,** James P. Warburg, president of International Manhattan Co., John Stewart Baker, chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan Co., Stephen Baker, chairman of Bank of Manhattan Trust Co.) whose energy and banking prowess have brought their house to its present prominence among other Manhattan banks...
Quiet and almost dull were the Chrysler ceremonies. The Warburg opening achieved drama by the presence of 50 armed policemen, a chain of armored trucks which delivered into the vaults of the bank $850,000,000 in cash and securities...
...Book. Choosing as his gambit an article by Professor William B. Munro which states that the people, not the Congress, make the laws, that laws are already half made before they are subjected to and often un-idealized by the jockeying of politicians, Mr. Warburg traces economic U. S. conditions which led first to the need and then the passing of the Federal Reserve Act. Says Mr. Warburg: "I was trained in the practices of a banking system, which under varying forms had worked satisfactorily in almost every industrially advanced country except the U. S. From the time...
...Museum of Modern Art in New York to serve on an advisory committee of 21 young persons, who will help the Museum constantly to keep abreast of the times. The Harvard students who have been selected are John Walker 3rd '30, L. E. Kirstein '30, E. M. M. Warburg '30, and Philip Johnson...