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...that could have been amended at our slightest word. The silliness and smallness of this misrepresentation of the American people is abysmal, when one sees the League in operation, functioning smoothly and amicably, and already developing a splendid spirit of universal cooperation in the solving of problems of universal concern. The agreement to refloat Austria has been a tremendous step ahead, for instance, engineered mainly by the patience and skill and altruism of that great Leaguer, Balfour...
...which has demonstrated its capacity to add nearly three and a half billion dollars to the volume of credit, which supplies half of the currency in circulation, and engages in investments and open market operations, exercises a sufficient influence to make its operations a matter of public interest and concern. For these reasons, he said, it is important that the administrators of the System should have a clear conception of the goal at which they are aiming, and that the public should know what that goal is. He said that repeated discussions of the subject had crystallized in the opinion...
...even greater concern to him than the paper's material security must have been the maintenance of its ideals and standards of truth and public service. In the past, the Times used to take such pride in its accuracy that it would test out in court any of its statements that might be questioned. Lord Northcliffe would welcome any move that helps to restore this former impartiality...
...signs point to the Student information Bureau" is an apt expression at present. From morning until night newoomers to Harvard troop into Phillips Brooks House. Of their innumerable questions most concern rooms. The problem of helping them find suitable quarters for the year is a perplexing one for the bureau. Printed lists containing information about more than four hundred rooming houses are provided. But when a man has no place to stay, or to leave his baggage, he is not going to inspect many places; he takes the first available room. While such a course seems natural, it is unwise...
...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...