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...much an actor as a boy with fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...
Some criticism of the methods of the correctors in the French Department is in order. I do not know whether papers from all course in the Department are read by the same correctors my plaint specifically concern French 2. In this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once a week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers...
...have been protected. As our [economic] difficulties have originated in large degree from [foreign] sources, any effort to bring about our own recuperation has dictated the necessity of co-operation by us with other nations to restore world confidence. . . . The difficulties between China and Japan have given us great concern. ... It is our purpose to assist in finding solutions...
...wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by retired Storekeeper Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld. From this, Dr. Flexner's chief present concern, he took time last week once more to flay Columbia and Chicago. They, said he, "and many State universities, go into the marketplace, advertising their wretched claptrap in newspapers and in magazines. Some of these activities are little short of dishonest...
Last week P. (for Pierre) Lorillard Co. moved into a class by itself as the only major industrial concern in the U.S. to resume dividends in 1931. Lorillard shares had not paid since 1926. From 1925 through 1929 when most companies increased earnings, Lorillard showed a steady decline to a low of 29? per share, but last year they jumped to $1.48. The dividend resumption was partly made possible by the calling, last fortnight, of $13,758,000 Lorillard 5½% bonds (TIME...