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...change in the spirit of contemporary life in general. It is futile to talk of fostering intellectual and scholarly ideals unless the community which shapes both the education and the student is upholding a similar ideal. Colleges in general will continue to reflect the environment in which they exist...
...giving the Union Central Executive Committee a good dose of 1932, Stalin's spokesman worked the assembly up to an appropriate pitch of optimism. But he also admitted 1931 gaps in the Five-Year Plan, gaps which hundreds of delegates knew to exist in the places from which they came. Neither Russia's transport system, nor her production of steel, iron or coal, nor the general productivity of labor in Soviet factories, admitted Premier Molotov, have fulfilled the 1931 schedules of the Five-Year Plan...
...make sincere efforts to correct all its own faults and accept the national situation as a fact. In this respect Harvard is certainly among the leaders. As long as the sport as a whole remains on its present large scale the evils of the game will always exist. As soon as one sore is healed another will break out. American football will always be ailing but no doctor can do any good since the patient has no real desire to be cured...
Speaking generally they serve as a reward for good work in the school and an incentive to good work at the university (since they will be taken away if the student rests on his laurels). Naturally many boys could not go to the university if they did not exist. When they are won by a well-to-do boy the stipend is commonly resigned to the next man on the list until a needy man is found, but the title with its honors is hold by the winner. The main reason for having them is that the work is better...
...like half a dozen other universities, has given him an honorary degree, but he has never had formal connection with that institution except through his daughter Lilian Hilyer, who married Robert Franz Foerster, onetime Princeton professor of economics. Medical literature contains many articles by Dr. Smith. About him there exist in print only three brief accounts, and the Index Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army gives one of them as Dr. Smith's obituary...