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...also the approach favored by the late MIT economist Charles Kindleberger, who thought it was the job of governments and central banks to step in and halt panics, but felt they should "always leave it uncertain whether the rescue will arrive in time or at all, so as to instil caution." That seems to be official U.S. government policy at the moment, actually...
...objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine spirit into the forms. Until then, may the last class election at Harvard rest in peace...
Fresh from a summer of exploration and peak-scaling, members of the Mountaineering Club will hold a meeting at 7.30 o'clock Wednesday evening in the Eliot House Junior Common Room to discuss plans for the coming year and instil some of their enthusiasm into Freshmen who wish to attend...
Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...
...Lowell continued with remarks on the duty of educators, saying in closing, "The question is the attitude with which we send the graduates our and the extent to which we instil into youth respect for the greatness of human thought...