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Senator Glass also proposed that: 1) No bank should hold the securities of corporations not earning 4% on their capital stock for the previous five years, which would eliminate many high-grade bonds from present bank portfolios. 2) National banks of $1,000,000 capital or more could have State-wide branches where State laws permitted such branch banking. 3) National bank shares must have $100 par, to eliminate cheap shares and weak holders. 4) The Federal Reserve rediscount base should be broadened by allowing loans on paper now ineligible where ten or more banks in one district combine...
...Labor asked management jointly to petition Congress for a $1,000,000,000 Federal bond issue to eliminate grade crossings. Management refused...
Passing his examinations with a grade of 84.80, William Hale Thompson, one-time Mayor of Chicago, obtained a Federal license to pilot any freshwater yacht up to 500 tons gross...
Recent discussion of educational problems has discerned itself with the grade and preparatory schools, as the sources of many defects in the system as a whole. The failure of American colleges to offer adequate training to students, and the lack of maturity in the students themselves, can be traced to the defective organization of the lower schools. Until that organization is strengthened, the efforts of the colleges, although they may eliminate various evils, will be like the attempt of a man to lift himself by his bootstraps...
Instructors have increased the number of daily quizzes and monthly examinations. Apparently, the various professors at Yale cannot get used to the innovation; they continue to believe that written work can be the only logical basis for a grade. As a result, the period which was originally intended for consultation with professors is devoted, of necessity, to the compilation of a long report which must be submitted at the end of the "reading period...