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...Another plan which has been suggested to relieve the situation is to have the federal reserve board extend a large amount of credit to the farmers and to adopt a very liberal policy toward renewals. This, however, may afford temporary relief, but conditions will have to eventually get back to normal, and in this period of readjustment, someone must suffer. As Senator Edge of New Jersey says, "The only durable and infallible barometer of business is the law of supply and demand, and to set up an artificial and false structure for the maintenance of prices, because certain industries...
There seems to be little doubt that under the present financial exigencies, the Governing Boards of the University will see fit to adopt the President's recommendation for an increase...
Manager George Brown of the new Arena stated yesterday that all teams playing on that rink will be numbered for the convenience of spectators. Harvard will be among those teams to adopt the identification, Coach Claflin stated, since there are no masked plays in hockey, and consequently no fear of betrayal of any formations through individuals being plainly marked...
...Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters...
...true that if every nation insisted on its amendments being adopted immediately under the threat of withdrawal-- as Argentina has done--the "stampede would follow." But nations which have sent delegations to the Assembly in all sincerity and seriousness are not ready to adopt this attitude at the first example. Relations between countries in new surroundings may be strained for a time without damage to the future. Only an implacable conservative could believe that the newness will not wear off. Senator Borah will find few who see in Argentine's action the utter ruin of the League of Nations...