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...considerable interest in the present status of American investments in that republic. Some critics have gone so far as to imply that much of the agitation in favor of the treaty was due to the pressure from American interests, especially banks and petroleum corporations, which are of course especially concerned oyer any issue affecting the future attitude of Colombia toward American enterprises. An appraisal of the present status of the latter is, therefore, a matter of timely concern...
...Transportation Act of 1920 should be given a fair trial. "Railroads," he said, "are suffering little more than other industrial institutions. There are, however, fundamental differences which affect the analogy. In the first place, the railroads are public utilities which must operate whether they pay or not. An industrial concern may shut down if the losses thereby occasioned are less than those which it sustains under operation in these subnormal times. In the second place, the typical industrial concern made abnormal profits during the war and so gained a surplus to carry it over the lean years. The railroads...
...doubt, the famous Tennis Court Oath of the French Revolution was of serious concern to those who took it. At Jarvis Field on spring afternoons one may hear shorter oaths relating to something quite different from political rights, but of far more immediate concern to those who utter them. Due to the increase in the popularity of tennis as an undergraduate sport, the students find that the number of courts available is inadequate to meet the demand. Hardly a day passes when the courts at Jarvis, Divinity, and Soldiers Field are not filled to their capacity. Often the waiting line...
...This concern found themselves loaded with fine clothing made by Hart, Schaffner & Marx and have taken a radical step to unload...
...spirited, if abrupt, review of Mr. Mencken's new anthology of Prejudices, the magazine makes healthful music. The Editorials reveal a temperate pulse; they concern undergraduates; they do not fall to charm our graver blood. And though we miss the Brief Case, with its crisp, incisive commentary on Harvard happenings, there is no pause...