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...music publishing enterprises of both Austria and Germany have been ruined, and the most famous houses have been barely able to exist. A queer and ironical turn of luck enters here. The Teutonic publisher of cultural works in general has long been noted for his courage and self-abnegation. The story of the publisher and Einstein is characteristic. Einstein brought his manuscript, saying that there were a dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers...
Premier Benito Mussolini is not a prohibitionist. But he thinks that there exist in Italy " alcoholic abuses," and he is determined to lessen the number of wine shops. Accordingly, he has ordered the enforcement of an old law of licenses which allows only one for every 2,000 people...
...grading system in the cotton business. The same standards now exist the world over...
...more far-sighted of the two. At the same time production has not been nearly as great as possible. It has moved in leaps and bounds rather than steadily. Neither strikes nor monopolies are good for industry and both certainly work hardships upon the consuming public. Until standards exist which will eliminate these, there must be some government interference. If non-partisanship of Labor will square with this, Mr. Woll's argument is perfect...
...days at Harvard there should be less class unity than at many other colleges is probably inevitable. Numbers are too unwieldy, trees are too thick, the pressure for personal rather than class honors is too great. A few exterior appliances for binding together this loose collection of individuals do exist--the Freshman "phalanxteries" and the annual smokers, for instance. But such means, without the heart for class unity, will always be mechanical and insufficient. Relatively less class unity during undergraduate days is the price Harvard pays for its position as a cosmopolitan college--an educational world in little...