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Against the general tendency to blame the economic system for the depression, this pamphlet blames rather the inertia and obstructionism of a Senate giving way to childish outbursts of petulance, and a House of Representatives frittering away its time on picayune economies. One may find this analysis of the situation too narrow, too concentrated on the international and monetary aspects of the depression; one may disagree with the conservative capitalistic solution offered, but at least the analysis is supported by a multitude of statistics, and the solution gives the sanction of banking circles to practical measures long advocated by economists...
...became unwillingly involved in the disturbance. The situation has now reached a point where the college office must act, not only to protect the University, but also the interests of the public. The University authorities, the Faculty, and the great majority of the student body, who look upon these childish disturbances as a nuisance to the public and to the Boston Elevated, will stand behind the College Office in any action they may take against men involved in such incidents in the future. That this action must be drastic is quite evident...
MANSFIELD (Katherine) Something Childish and Other Stories...
...important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During...
...smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane is caused to swish down, with precisely regulated force and direction, upon childish fundaments...