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...gone beyond all previous highs is the precaution, wholly unequalled in other administrations, which the Secret Service takes to protect the President on all occasions. Certainly no President in recent times has so bitterly aroused the enmity of a whole class as Franklin Roosevelt has aroused the economically substantial element of the U. S. Regardless of party and regardless of region, today, with few exceptions, members of the so-called Upper Class frankly hate Franklin Roosevelt...
...Altogether the "Saint Matthew Passion" falls into about twenty-four scenes, twelve small ones, indicated by chorales, and twelve larger ones, marked by arias. The problem of representing the action of the Passion and at the same time of giving due weight to the devotional element is solved in the most perfect way imaginable. The more we realize the dramatic plan of the "Saint Matthew Passion", the more we are convinced that it is a master piece...
...further discouraging element in the present situation is that the number of upperclassmen to apply has increased from 78 last year to 123. Of these 123 a majority are necessarily Freshmen, which should give some indication of the number of members of 1939 who will find themselves out of luck next fall...
Thus America is confronted with the problem of a large group of students in every University who are not deriving benefit from the educational facilities, proportionate to the amount of money expended. This irresponsible element is wasting either the money of the State or of their parents, as well as being a millstone about the necks of men who are prepared to make the most of their education. Our forefathers believed that a man deserved an education if he showed intellectual promise and determinedness of purpose, now the current belief is that everyone, regardless of his or her intentions should...
...world which has seen history hinge so often upon the control of the seas and the superiority of one nation's merchant marine over another this comparatively new element through which international commerce is beginning to flow, the air, should have careful consideration. There was a time when Yankee clipper-ships sailed the seas in numbers that were symbols of commercial prestige and potential naval power, but the advent of the steamship found America napping, and today most of our trade is carried on in foreign bottoms. If the United States does not soon establish a definite air-schedule across...