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...upset present programs. Instead, he goes to the heart of the educational body--the men who teach. And when he suggests the use of the vast funds available for education directly towards raising the standard of these men he makes an appeal to all who place the everyday, human element first...
Success for any human undertaking rests primarily upon the quality of the men involved. An amidst the scurry for improvement, Professor Henderson's advice to mark time until the human element has caught up with the mechanical and theoretical rings true like an age-old maxim. Certainly the real significance of this most recent proposal is the fact that in it lies the true foundation for the successful realization of the aims of countless new educational devices...
...problem of this maelstrom that was of chief concern to the members of the American Bankers' Association, meeting in San Francisco last week. Old, approved methods of banking have had to be revised under the new systems while equally important to bankers is the new personal element. Once a conservative banker could be expected to remain with his institution for years. Now bankers at the convention could scarcely remember whether friends were with the same bank, or whether that bank had been swept away into some merger or whether control of it had passed to some holding corporation...
Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened...
...tendency so much in evidence now towards evening gridiron frolics under the illumination of powerful arc lights is introducing an element into college football which may well prove alarming to those of the football-going public who consider the contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely...