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...hearty agreement with the President and fellows of Harvard College about the importance to the public weal of increased support for endowed institutions of learning. Among the finest of our free institutions, and most resistive to political domination are our privately supported colleges and universities. In them the free play of thought finds its most favorable environment. Because they can afford to entertain conflicting viewpoints soberly and objectively, their tendency is towards social balance and orderly growth. In addition to motive power, they provide in a politically confused society a balance wheel which no state controlled institution can supply...
Stirring to Poles is Article I: "The Polish State is the common weal of all its citizens. Resurrected by the struggle and sacrifice of its best sons it shall be passed on, as an historic heritage, from generation to generation. Each generation is under obligation to increase the power and authority of the State by its own endeavor. For the fulfillment of this duty it is responsible with its honor and its name to its descendants...
...novelty in Japanese politics, the Council provides an arena less formal than the Cabinet in which the fighting service and civilian ministers, perpetually at cross purposes, can quarrel at their ease for the public weal. The question last week was how many more bonds can the Imperial Government force the nation to absorb in order to meet the continued cost of Japanese penetration deeper & deeper into China...
Theoretically the Bank of England is a purely private institution. Its stock is owned by private investors and its officers and directors are private individuals. In practice, of course, the Bank of England is a model central bank, subordinating private profits to public weal. And in the 241 years since the bank was founded, tradition has encrusted the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street with powers over British banking that would turn...
Research Associates Inc. expects to develop inventions, discoveries and patents of its own members, and by applying these to the betterment of the public weal to encourage further help from outsiders. The charter states that no profit may accrue to any member...