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...instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine in the same room would be little more than that had at a political luncheon in honor...
...individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance can but result in only occasional and formal, contact between tutor and student...
...years, however, the Firestone Rubber Co. has obtained a concession for the establishment of rubber plantations within the republic. This will mean the opening up of the whole area, the establishment of a great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction of their native...
...tolerance and understanding are too often underestimated. On this latter ground the fanfare of student voyages, international Schools, and even the schoolboy correspondence in French, find a justification. Meanwhile the position occupied by Harvard in foreign eyes, offers to a much greater degree the opportunity for utilizing such contact. With this in mind the University should take a certain pride in playing a part, even if subordinate to the local Rotary Club...
Walter Hughes Newton of Minneapolis, to be a $10,000 Presidential secretary. Ten years a Minnesota member of Congress, Mr. Newton will now leave the Capitol to serve as White House contact-man with the many scattered independent executive bureaus and commissions.* Big, burly, strong-voiced, he directed the Speakers' Bureau in Chicago for the Hoover campaign...