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...exact factual data. The labor of learning foreign languages, for example, has been under fire, on the ground that it is not worth the trouble. The whole system of giving "marks" or grades has been attacked, as tending to put our students under too much competitive pressure to attain a high, scholastic standard. "The idea is usually accepted," said President Hopkins, "that except for conservatism and addiction to established forms on the part of the colleges, such requirements would speedily be abandoned...
Last week there was naturally no announced program of how Archduke Otto proposes to attain the Throne on which the King of Italy's daughter hopes to sit with him. Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan...
...Crowley method of correction: Let banks in Wisconsin (and elsewhere) which do not have $1 in capital for every $10 in deposits, continue to sell capital stock or notes to RFC until they attain the 10-to-1 ratio...
...Administration. The National Housing bill had just one purpose: to sluice money into the building trades and the industries that supply building materials, money from private bank accounts rather than from the public treasury. As with many another recovery measure, the National Housing Act looked invincible on paper. To attain its objective, attacks were aimed along three lines: 1) As a stopgap until the rest of the program could be started, citizens were to be encouraged to remodel and repair their houses. This was to bring out perhaps $1,000,000,000 of private capital. The Government...
...Aiken's prose is simple, lucid, and straightforward. His choice of titles highly imaginative, and, if the test of a short story is an indelible imprint left on the mind of the reader, "Thistledown," "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," and Mr. Arcularis" will attain immortality as far as this writer is concerned...