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...longer afford to pay school fees," wrote Minister to Iraq Paul Knabenshue, "and other incidental expenses of my children living apart from me, I am obliged to remove them from school...
...Dean recognizes the rising scholastic standards of recent years, correctly attributes them to the tutorial system and general examinations, and concludes that the time has come when University Hall can safely afford to scrap much of the prep-school machinery of the past. Among the existing institutions nominated for oblivion are the checking up in attendance at classes, the recording of April and November grades, and the probation system. Whether the abolition of probation would serve any very useful purpose is questionable, but the other two reforms are eminently to be desired and, as the Dean points out, there...
...transformed into an effective fighting force of three hundred thousand men entirely without signifi-world Russia does not need to make any increases; but what is perhaps even more forbidding is the abnormal concentration of troops in the Maritime provinces, which entails an expense that the Soviet can ill afford at the present...
Mindful of last autumn's fiasco with the 4th Liberty Loan redemption (TIME, Oct. 23) the Treasury could afford to take no chances. The interest rate offered was liberal. The maximum maturity of only 58 weeks was calculated to draw out money that was afraid to take long term risks. The offer was well calculated. By nightfall the subscription books were closed. Banks (which had nearly $1,000,000,000 of excess reserves) and other big buyers had nominally offered to take $3,415,000,000 of the 13½ month notes...
With rows of red figures marching across the balance sheet, with Clarence Hungerford Mackay so hard-fixed that he can no longer afford to turn them back with the quiet signing of a check, the directors of the proud New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week sent out an SOS for $500,000. Seventy of New York's richest music patrons first heard the help cry in the Park Avenue home of Harry Harkness Flagler. Already, Mr. Flagler informed them, there is a deficit of $150,000. The season's box-office receipts amount to $60,000 less than...