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...Denver, they have buried the hatchet, brought out the peace dove, shaken hands, spoken words of mutual praise, given up things for the common weal...
Inside your front cover are these words: "Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fairdealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups...
During the first days of debate only one legislative advance was made. It became clear that the Government's vigorously worded clause punishing men striking contrary to the public weal would have to be supplemented by a similar clause punishing employers who lock their men out with similar effect. Originally the Government contended, rather lamely, that employers simply do not lock put their men against the public interest; but when the partisan aspect of this view was flayed on all sides in open debate, Sir Douglas Hogg was obliged to promise redrafting of the bill...
...From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a 'key,' would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER...
From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal...