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Education, in the last analysis, is largely a matter of carbohydrates. In recognition of this principle it has been suggested that the University establish some sort of a cafeteria, where weary denizens of the House Plan can refresh the jaded spirit without being involved in fruitless exercise. Already such an institution flourishes on the other bank of the Charles, catering to the isolated appetites of the Business School, and there is no reason to believe that an undergraduate is in any way a less valiant trencherman. If the University could run an eating place of this type, open, perhaps, from...
...ideal system would be to establish one such refrectory in every House. They must of course be self-sustaining but it is probable that each House could support its own. It this were impossible they could be organized jointly by several Houses or there could be one central until conveniently located. The physical difficulties to putting any such scheme into effect can be easily resolved, either by the use of the dining rooms or by the make-shift use of some empty room in the cellar...
...Vast liquidation and readjustments have left us with a large degree of credit paralysis. If we can put our financial resources to work, I am confident we can make a large measure of recovery independent of the rest of the world. . . . Our first step toward recovery is to re-establish confidence. We must put some steel beams in the foundation of our credit structure...
Reconstruction Corp. "I recommend that an emergency Reconstruction Corporation of the nature of the former War Finance Corporation should be established.† It may not be necessary to use such an instrumentality very extensively. It should be in a position to facilitate exports, make advances to agricultural credit agencies, to establish industries, railways and financial institutions which cannot otherwise secure credit. It should be placed in liquidation at the end of two years...
...that in a university of some size personal contact with instructors is impossible. This is, to a large extent, true. The intimacy between the teachers and the taught that is bred in a small college is one of its most priceless advantages, while it is well nigh impossible to establish any friendly acquaintanceship at an institution such as Harvard save by some artificial stimulus...