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...partners in 1,200 branch offices messages like this: "National Securities [Exchange] Act is a matter of grave concern to every owner of real estate or securities, to all officials of corporations or banks. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that very few of your friends or clients can afford to disregard this new menace to national recovery. . . . Please discuss it with others and urge them to acquaint themselves with some of these vicious provisions...
...night by a top-hatted apparition in the shrubbery beside Kirkland House, impatiently pushing twigs out of his eyes and muttering to himself. One, more curious than his fellows, drew nearer to do a little caves dropping. The muttering resolved itself into: "You'd think that Lehman Hall could afford to lay a sidewalk here...
...There remains the fact, however, that . . . naked speculation has been made far too . . . easy for those who could and for those who could not afford to gamble...
Clyde Beatty cannot afford to let one of his animals get the idea that it is tough, that it can bully other performers. At that night's circus performance Sammy charged him, knocked him down. Next morning Trainer Beatty rounded up four brothers, Leo, Brutus, Nero Jr., King, oldest and toughest lions in his troupe. He drove them into the arena, prodded them to fury. Then he sent Sammy in. Sammy, still feeling tough, made a pass at Leo. The brothers closed in. That night Sammy, licking a dozen bites and scratches, was the meekest animal...
Dean Leighton's report suggests that it might be desirable to give Freshman advisers some compensation for their work, that they might afford to grant more time to it, but does not press the argument because of the present straightened circumstances of University finances. However, if the two most important aspects of the development of education at Harvard are the tutorial system and the House plan, it is obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student...