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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This individuality or attention is continued far within the entrance gates. Colleges are realizing that the current mass-education often proves to be no education at all. The individualistic emphasis results, as both cause and effect, in harder intellectual work on the part of students. Students are really becoming true to their name. With this increase of individual faithfulness, it is clear that there runs also a deepened confidence in the worth of all the processes of the human mind. The methods and conclusions which we call rational make a stronger appeal. These methods and conclusions, to which many factors...
...single and most significant part of academic history, however, in 1929-1930 relates to finance. In this immense and diverse field the most important section is the increase of current income. The increase of current income finds its largest element, as a point of application, in the salaries of teachers. Those salaries continue to rise at a rate not unlike that which obtained between 1913 and 1925 which was 100 percent. The income of the American college is normally derived from three sources: first, the fees of students; second, the income from endowment; third, annual contributions made by graduates, supporters...
Under the Official Secrets Act (see p. 28) the MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...
...holding company to be controlled by the Chilean Government and the Chilean producers. The export tax will be abolished, the Government will be recompensed by the new company. New fields will be opened; the price will be sharply dropped, perhaps by as much as $10 off the current price of $42 a ton. Conceivably, a price agreement will be reached with I. G. Farben. Guggenheims. While one great U. S. nitrogen power-Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.-will not take part in this effort at world rationalization, another U. S. group is vitally concerned. A huge investment in Chilean nitrates, amounting...
...guests and private pilots they make flights for hunting, or fishing in the Caribbean. These adventures provide meat for Alicia's articles, which appear in more-than-average length in Father's Liberty?and, indicative of rising reputation, she had an article on aviation clothes in Conde Nast's current Vogue. Daughter Alicia's spirit is come by honestly. Her father displayed it 30 years ago when he dashed away from Yale University to report the China uprising...