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...suppose this criticism was answered in a similar vein. One might say here is a mayor caught in a ticklish, political situation. He knows that, in addition to the ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered...
...recently acted to speed up the appellate process in Federal courts. This should be extended to state jurisdiction as well, making it possible to hurry procedure along at something better than the current snail's-pace. If this were brought about, there might be a chance of curbing the wide-spread corruption in banking circles...
...than those who had studied from their text-books. That a comparison was not made between results of college students who had seen lecture table experiments and those who had viewed the same experiments in a moving picture is regrettable; for there is reason to believe that a more wide-spread use of films in certain courses would be advantageous...
...over-emphasis. In an atmosphere where football is considered the central interest of college life, it probably passes as a regrettable but minor blunder. To those who think of a university as something more than a field-house and a stadium, it will appear as the outcome of a wide-spread evil in contemporary college life...
...cause of the proposed step is laid at the door of the present depression, and of what the present director characterizes as the "museum habit," a wide-spread and natural tendency to visit the gallery without considering the financial burden necessary to maintain it. The Society was organized three years ago by a group of Harvard undergraduates and has been supported both in exhibits and money solely by contributions from New York. These contributions which have only recently been cancelled because of the depression, were rapidly being superceded by Cambridge and Boston aid which has, however, been found insufficient...