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Aftermath. Premier Briand sourly watched his Finance Minister, M. Doumer, take this rattlebrained bill to the Senate. Admittedly it was almost worthless. M. Doumer's experts opined that it might produce 2½ billion francs of added revenue, whereas at least 5 billions are necessary. The Senate Finance Committee's first act was to prune away some of its notorious "spoof" clauses (TIME, Feb. 15), mere legislative "nifties"?? not worthy of the Senators' laughter. The general impression was that the bill could scarcely be worse. But it was at least a bill! It was, in fact, a great triumph...
...economic development on a lower price level. Much of the credit recently granted as working capital is still misused to sustain the high prices. Too much of the small amount of available working capital has been invested in very old or very new plants and has become worthless. But the cleaning up process, the exclusion of weak, newly founded enterprises seems to be nearly finished. The export surplus in December together with the reawakening of the international money market is one of the best signs of a slowly recovering economic situation. Even if this recovery should fail to become...
There are in the University curriculum a number of courses, distinctly too large in our opinion, which have in them preponderant elements of uselessness, boredom, unnecessary accumulations of worthless facts for the purpose of "mental discipline", and other equally unpleasant characteristics. The desirability of freedom from the ills of the lecture system for all members of the University has been advanced so often in these columns that it will scarcely bear repetition for the efforts have proved unavailing to say the least...
...better assistance and equipments in the various departments, and above all, to provide "more and better tutors." Ever since the inauguration of the tutorial system the first cry has been, "more and better tutors." The point is fundamental. Under a poor tutor the system is little more than worthless; a good tutor is often practically all that is needed to make a student's college experience a success. If the Harvard Fund provides more and better tutors by obtaining money to: before available for this purpose, it will justify its existence a hundred fold...
This pride in work, Mr. Williams asserted, is one of two vital factors in the labor problem. The other is the colossal importance, to the unskilled laborer, of obtaining a daily job. Mr. Williams described his experiences as one of the mass of unemployed whose life seemed worthless because there was no place for them to use their powers...