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...John B. Crane, instructor of Economics, proposed yesterday that a congressional investigation be made into the authenticity of the claim that Wright was the first man to fly an airplane...
...Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded...
...allegiance under other masters, it is reported that Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, on swearing loyalty in 1830, replied, "Sire, you are the thirteenth!" This little folk-tale, though exaggerated in fact, is quite accurate in spirit, and its spirit has given rise to the fitting title of Crane Brinton's highly readable biography, "The Lives of Talleyrand...
Needless to say, "The Lives of Talleyrand" is a defense of that shrewd man who managed to slip out from under five successive decaying governments before they fell and keep his political power at an almost constant zenith. Crane Brinton does not attempt to picture Talleyrand as a "good" man in the ethical sense of the word; but he insists that he is just as "good" a man as those parliamentarians of the French Revolution who asserted that all men are free and equal, and then promptly turned around to draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise...
...meeting held in the Dunster House Common Room 16 Seniors were chosen to the Phi Beta ranks by the Senior Eight and by a group of five graduate members. The graduates participating in the election were Dean Hanford '17, Crane Brinton '19, Charles B. Abbott '14, Samuel H. Cross '12, and Seth T. Gano...