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...article undertakes to prove that there is little undergraduate concern over the winning or losing of a game by pointing out the demise of pre-game rallies and the change in the attitude of the players. And an appeal is made for the scheduling of contests with institutions which have more definite common interests with Harvard than some of the colleges now appearing in the stadium...
...mechanically. Inherently it carries out rather than thwarts the purpose of Divisional examinations, which are, like any examinations, big sticks to force the gaining of traditional knowledge. The student would have more opportunity to present a clarified view, and the clarified view has always been deeply the educator's concern...
Cotton & Constitution Sirs: Your Sept. 14 issue notes the recent agitation for no-planting laws in the cotton States. As a lawyer who devotes most of his time to fianacial and economic matters. I have been disturbed by the apparent total absence of concern in the minds of the advocation Governors and the complete ignoring of what seems to my lawyer friends and myself as an insuperable constitutional inhibition involved in such legislation...
...More Goodwill. Last year the total assets of Transamerica Corp. were $1,117,000,000. Last week drastic write-downs were made. All marketable securities were valued at market prices; shares of controlled companies were written down to their net asset value; all goodwill and going concern value were eliminated, also the value of insurance in force in the case of insurance companies. The result was a total asset value of only $302,117,000, a net asset value (assets minus liabilities...
...Manchuria, comprising the Three Eastern Provinces of China with an area of 363,700 square miles and a population of nearly 30,000,000, has been the paramount object of Japanese expansion for about thirty years. The South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese Government-controlled concern, led the exploitation of the country with a view to monopolizing all economic and industrial enterprises and crushing the interests of the Chinese themselves. In recent years, however, the Chinese have been developing their own industries and Japan felt aggrieved, as she saw they would obstruct her grandiose schemes. Not a few Japanese urged...