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...some $600,000. Missionary bishops both abroad and in the U. S. ruefully accepted a 10% reduction in their salaries. Salaries of all missionaries and office workers were also reduced. But still to be lopped off the budget was an additional $400,000 which will be a chief concern of extraordinary meetings of the House of Bishops and the National Council in Garden City, L. I. next month...
...burden of the last year with Divisionals, Orals, a Thesis, and numerous hour examinations is a difficult one to carry successfully. The present change will enable a student to devote himself more attentively to the problems which are his chief concern, while restricting those academic obligations which are not essential. It is true that a course reduction will place a greater emphasis upon the Tutorial System, but this kind of instruction has been found to be increasingly satisfactory...
...Every time I give an opinion on anything-tariff, taxes, the Mormon Church or pigsticking in Argentina- somebody says, 'Well the blink-blank! I'm against him. . . .' I've no intention of making a declaration on any question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire's Moses sarcastically "marvelled at the moderation with which Mr. Garner began his campaign for the Presidency." Senate Democrats pounced into the fray and the whole Capitol rumbled and roared with the stridencies of party warfare. Just...
Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
...confronting both school and college. The purpose, as he sees it, of the education of tomorrow is to prepare a social man for a social system. The ideal of the individual triumphing personally in rigorous competition must be abandoned and in its place must come the altruistic citizen whose concern is to further the group of which he is a member...