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When asked through what stages we would pass before business would be back on a firm foundation, Mr. Bancroft replied, "At present we are about 15 to 20 per cent below normal. This condition will last about six months longer, to be followed by a period of flash prosperity, not more than a year in length. This will be due partly to a return of confidence, and partly to a return of inflated currency...
...last few months have been a period of deflation, but I believe that this has gone as far as is can at present, and that re-inflation will soon set in. But after this flash prosperity there is going to be a long period of business depression, covering about three years, which will be one of the worst this country has ever experienced. There will be a disastrous panic, during which a large number of business houses which are now firmly situated will go under. Not until the end of this period will business be back...
...delighted with the works of Amy Lowell. "I think well of Amy Lowell," he said. "indeed, I have an admiration for her achievements. She has applied the n. w. doctrine of poetry in a way that has not destroyed the poetry of her meters. At times wonderful lines flash out of the tides of her poetry; and many of her poems have a deep and human import and have a creative and fusing spirit of a fine poetic...
...convinced. Mr. Benet breathes up to the ballad; that is his essential lung-power. In the ballad, with its burthen and repetend its flash and glitter and panoply of words, its haunting tonalities, our poet is peculiarly happy. Not that we deny his virtuosity. Mr. Benet can turn from Two Visions of Helen to Italy of the 16th century, hover for a beautiful moment on the Iseult legend, and bob up at 8.30 A. M. on 32nd street all in the space of 2 hours and 97 pages! But and we risk monotony the ballad is his measure...
...Monday Calhoun played at one of the ends. Dilworth, if he does not reopen old injuries received while in the service, seems certain to hold down one end in the face of such competition. He has not had the experience of first-team play, but anyone who saw him flash in the 1921 Freshman game here three years ago will vouch that he has the ability...