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...department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
Speaking yesterday afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria before the first session of the Ninth Annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems, President Conant declared, "The perpetual disintegration of hard and fast class lines would seem to me the first aim of an educational system in a country which believes in the desirability of a truly classless society...
Different was the predicament of New York's $157,000,000 World of Tomorrow. Three weeks from closing time, $436,670 of its current liabilities was owed to banks, $500,000 to contractors, another $500,000 immediately due to bondholders, and bills payable topped receivables by $500,000. To meet these quick obligations it had $1,000,000 cash. In New York, as in San Francisco, October's attendance is proving the best of the year (2,492,096 paid admissions for the first two weeks). It looked as if the Fair, by closing day, might just about...
...book, has no such jamboree in mind. Even Marxists may concede that the body of their belief, with all its nobility of purpose, its elaborate doctrine, its often tragic record in action, has rarely undergone such delicate surgery. For the argument of this book goes far deeper than any current disillusionment with a "discredited" Communism...
Among the speakers at tomorrow's opening session of the New York Herald Tribune's Ninth Annual Forum on Current Problems will be President Conant and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government...