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...business recovers its perspective, the holiday season must be passed and forgotten. Christmas buying always lends a strong seasonal stimulation to merchants, which is reflected back into industry. So far buying has been good without being hectic or extraordinary. Nevertheless it constitutes a temporary and rather artificial element in the general business situation...
...priceless instruction which only a yearly handful of students could appreciate, until not so long before the end, the value of his subject came to be generally recognized. While his competence really covered the whole field, his more special interest lay in Old French, Anglo-Norman, and the French element in English. On the two latter subjects the learned world awaited from him definitive treatises which death forestalled...
...Resolved, That the family is an unnecessary element in the progress of civilization...
There is small doubt that the time element worked in Count Volpi's favor, but there must have been other factors as well which enabled the Italian negotiator to convince Secretaries Mellon, Kellogg and Hoover and Senator Smoot as well that Italy deserved the terms she got-the most lenient which the U. S. has granted to any debtor nation, not excepting Belgium...
...spite of our particular care to avoid misunderstanding, we have received occasional communications protesting against our desire to "abolish chapel", or accusing us of being destructive critics without a constructive element. Of course it is compulsion and not chapel that we, and now virtually all of Yale College and the Freshman Year, are attacking, and the very attack is a constructive one. It is our belief, stated infinite numbers of times, that what runs our religious services is the element of compulsion. Unless you call an operation for appendicitis a destructive operation you cannot call this newly expressed and long...