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...from research allotments would destroy its own purpose. Harvard's goal must be to preserve high standards of education. An over-enthusiastic use of the budgetary shears would lower those standards until we would be competing on intellectually even terms with state universities instead of offering customers a superior brand of education. Since the University's only bargaining point is its educational advantages, it cannot afford to slice out of its budget more than the most lacy of frills. Even the ten per cent cut last spring weakened the props of the tutorial system, the basis of the College...
From the Indiana's keel-laying to launching only 24 months had elapsed. She was the latest of a class which now has five brand-new battleships in the water, a force which not only has enough speed to run circles around the other 15 U.S. battleships, but enough gunpower to blow them out of the water. When the Indiana joins the fleet, twelve to 14 months from now, armed with nine 16-in. guns, 20 five-inchers, the latest anti-aircraft cannon, she will find four sisters already in service. Two of them (North Carolina and Washington...
Spry, roundheaded Frank Huckins likes to show up at his office at noon, work until late at night. In his social life, as at work, he is a bristling individualist. He has outraged Jacksonville hostesses by taking his own brand of Scotch to cocktail parties, refusing to attend dinners unless the menu suited him. A hater of games, he goes to sleep on any handy sofa if someone suggests a round of bridge...
Other American League teams with large followings: the brand-new Washington Lions, managed by Ching Johnson, onetime Ranger star; the Philadelphia Rockets, managed by Danny Cox, another famed old Ranger; the Springfield (Mass.) Indians, not only managed but owned by Eddie Shore, the bruising old Boston Bruin, for more than a decade the biggest crowd puller of them...
Pleased with his exhibition, George Washington Carver is equally pleased with a brand-new automatic elevator, a present from his admirer Henry Ford, which was installed six weeks ago to save his aged legs (he was born a slave at an unknown date in the 1860s) the 19 painful steps up to his room. "Exquisite elevator," he chortled. "The doctor said he couldn't do much for me as long as I climbed those 19 steps. I'm not very old, but I've been around a long time...