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...problem of coaching the House athletic groups is going to be of great importance. And it seems to me that Harvard can profit materially by the experience of her parent university, both as to what might be imitated and what avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains...
...lobbyist, the Senate investigating committee kept James A. Arnold on the witness stand for five days last week while its members probed and pricked every nook and corner of his legislative career. Middleaged, heavy-jowled, canny. Lobbyist Arnold is manager of the Southern Tariff Association (organized to develop protective sentiment in the South) and of the American Taxpayers League (pledged to repeal the federal inheritance...
...showing the Democratic tie-up with the stockmarket. James J. Riordan, president of the New York's County Trust Co., close personal friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, committed suicide with a revolver. For a whole day the news was suppressed lest a run on the County Trust develop. Ill health and mental derangement were given as the official reasons but stockmarket losses were suspected, admitted. Mr. Raskob was named acting chairman of the bank, which auditors quickly pronounced "in perfect condition...
...absence from metropolitan diversions and advantages forces the members of the smaller community to develop their own resources. Besides preserving these opportunities, a plan for knitting the small college more closely into the educational fabric by exchanging professors with larger institutions would give the men from the more central institutions a chance to view their own educational problems free from the distracting activities of the higher pressure university...
...come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater comprehension of underlying conditions than is afforded by ordinary newspaper reports and articles...