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...discussion that followed, members of various nations took part in questioning the speaker of the evening, and minority problems of lasting significance were discussed. Germany's function as a sounding board for minority protests was brought up by one member of the meeting, and this assertion was accepted as accurate by those in attendance...
When word came that R. F. C. was really ready to function, Board Chairman George M. Reynolds of National Credit Corp., privately financed at President Hoover's instigation last October to advance up to $500,000,000 to shaky banks, announced from Chicago that his agency would gradually cease operations when R. F. C. got into its full stride. Since its incorporation, said he, the pool had made 750 different loans totalling $153,000,000.* Of the 575 borrowing banks, 17 have failed; no one could say how perilously close to failure had been the other 558 banks which...
...difficult indeed to visualize an editorial man, of the temperament of a Vagabond writer, for instance, handling shrewd business men or writing straightforward advertising copy; or seeing a business man turn from his adding machine to dictate an editorial on secondary schools. But, of course, one board could not function without the other and both are integral parts of the Crimson...
Harvard will have plenty of company in the pursuit of this policy. Many, perhaps most, of the attempts to define the aims of the American College are in substantial agreement. President Hopkins, of Dartmouth, says its function is that of giving "a perspective on the conditions of life." President Park, of Bryn Mawr, declared to her students: "That the college gives to its best ability an education preparatory to living in its justification, and perhaps its only justification." Again quoting Mr. Lowell: "The object of cultural education is to broaden and deepen the range of thought; that of vocational...
...Yale has been handicapped by a lack of instructors in order to carry out the original theory of close faculty supervision, and the natural antipathy against such experiments which is evidenced among faculty members and students. In view of the conditions under which the system has been required to function, it is hardly fair to condemn it until it has been given a fair chance. --The Pennsylvanian...