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...from high and preparatory schools remained the same as the numbers have increased but that the enrollment is now even more representative of the country at large is more than merely entertaining reading. To those who have during the last few months interested themselves more and more in the function of the University these statistics are one more illuminating reference to a state of affairs which should be adequately understood by all who have a true interest in the future of the University...
...American university, that is, if she is to attempt to reach with he influence not alone the youth of New England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard...
After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
Within a few hours soldiers, sailors and marines were on their way to points of expected unrest. Soon afterward civilian volunteer organizations, long ago prepared against just such an emergency by prominent Conservatives,** began to function for the maintenance of indispensable industries. The Government announced that, in these circumstances, famine conditions were not imminent. Ominously the hours drew nearer midnight...
...function of thus helping to create a more social atmosphere in the Law School, the Chancery Club has the support and approval of President Lowell and the Law Faculty. The President has always expressed himself in favor of getting the students of the University together socially. A member of the Law School Faculty said at one of the early meetings of the Club that, although he was not in favor of doing away with classroom work, he felt that it should be supplanted by discussion of the law among the students themselves, an opportunity for which is offered by such...