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...commented on the extreme complexity of the science of psychology, due to the intricacy of the human psyche itself. In closing, he paid tribute to the mentality of William James, of whom he said: "It was his comprehensive mind which made me realize that the horizons of human psychology widen into the immeasurable...
...exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy of a true island Greek...
...Thus various Harvard instructors have already aligned themselves on the side of Dr. Hanfstaengl. In their telegrams of sympathy to him they demand for young American students the right to study freely in a land of such great scientific and cultural traditions as Germany and to be allowed to widen their scope in this way. Moreover, the Harvard Club of Berlin--which is a union of former Harvard students--will busy itself next Friday with this affair...
...next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control of the Fatherland's whole economic life. While the Press kept up a fanfare about the King of Siam...
...atmosphere as Harvard and Yale. The average Harvard student would get much more benefit out of spending his Junior year at some college outside New England, either in this country or abroad, than he would out of spending it at Yale. Such a plan would do much to widen the undergraduate's range of experience and to remove a certain narrowness of outlook too of ten associated with the designation "Harvard man." As for the practical difficulties offered by the differences in academic standards, they could readily be overcome by an Administration really convinced of the advantages of the plan...