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...care the position of the new comer. The name of Harvard, many feel, is no longer alone adequate to attract a scholar. More tangible recognition of his worth must be offered to bring even very small mountains to our Mohammed. For many years feeling has run high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before he may grace the ranks of even...
...object to the practice which now prevails where boards in several states meet and decide in five minutes the age-old question: What is whiskey? . . . Ill-considered and hasty attempts made by various local authorities to determine what is whiskey and how it should be labeled will result only in turning the entire market over to the bootleggers and to foreign manufacturers...
...what is wrong. The Oriental has no conscience, being of mixed race. He does not perceive what is right as clearly as does the German. That is why the Oriental is obliged to learn law, to read and to write it. We are again binding Germany to the age-old heritage of RACIALISM...
...Churches have found the Depression an admirable background for a vigorous renewal of their age-old attacks on Mammon. But only the Roman Catholic Church may be said to have an official attitude on "Economics." This attitude, based on Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), the Statesman-Pope, Pius XI, has elaborated in many a pronouncement. Denouncing Communism, rejecting Socialism, chiding Capitalism, finding Syndicalism (the Fascist type of government-in-business) too powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business...
...age-old question of breaking training has again been dragged out into the limelight as the result of a meeting of the track team yesterday where the coach informed his men that he had definite proof in the shape of anonymous letters that some of them were breaking training. He proceeded to ask all of them to report any future defalcations along this line on the part of their teammates, and concluded with a sweeping exhortation to fight for cleaner sports and dear old Harvard. Thus was brought of a climax a subject on which certain episodes in the football...