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Reprovingly replied Earl Selborne, a director of Lloyd's Bank: "By far the most potent reason why many of the noble Lords do not attend the House is they can no longer afford to come to London very often. They gave all they had to the country during the War and they are now suffering the burden of taxation...
Last week parents paid school term bills with a twinge at the expense and a wonder of their offsprings' futures. Teachers sighed over their final salary checks, for the study trip they could not afford. Alumni poured money into class funds, and school heads calculated how to ask for more...
...English in those students who have not acquired such an ability before entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition of the English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent or better has complicated rather than solved the problem. Confronted by the danger...
...fund could then be established with the endowment funds now used to cover the difference between the cost of education and the tuition income. To the man with means it would mean abolishing a system of philanthropy which is neither added nor wanted. To the man who could not afford such a charge at the time it would offer a self respecting means of obtaning an education without inflctng useless hardships...
...layman might think. It seems obvious to the casual observer that in Washington are concentrated not only the legislative and executive branches of the national government but a host of independent commissions making daily decisions affecting the plain citizen in countless ways--all of which seem to afford a political laboratory not to be excelled. Then, the casual observer will say, there are the embassies and the light which they throw on affairs throughout the world...