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...plant is no longer adequate even for the present classes. The existing faculty can cope with further numbers only by indulging in the methods of mass production and specialized training which have become so characteristic of the mammoth state universities of the country. It is time to call a halt if only in order to formulate plans for a further advance...
...rate a halt is necessary--a halt during which it will be possible to determine whether a further advance is merely a problem of increased physical equipment, or whether there is something more subtle which limits Harvard's effectiveness to a certain size, or whether, finally, there is some entirely new factor which will solve the clouded situation...
...third of a billion divided between Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Part of these sums would have been immediately available for financing a Reich-wide Nationalist Revolution. This also the French General Staff had in mind. The failure of the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch called a halt in French military measures, as the reports from a Germany in convulsion were so contradictory that even the French General Staff, with its very complete spy-system, could make little of the events...
...German Government has long warned the French that if they continued to occupy the Ruhr the Reich would become a prey to Bolshevism. The French Government always looked upon such an eventuality as a bugaboo. The German Government also said that they could not halt passive resistance, because public opinion was too strong. The French said: "Stop resisting before talking." The German Government ordered passive resistance to stop and in the place of Bolshevism there have arisen two dictators, one for Bavaria and the other for the Reich...
...saved the College from the evil of abject submission to an all-powerful coach, which has been common in other colleges. But when the system of divided control encroaches on the efficiency of coaching and leads to a long string of defeats, it is time to call a halt and to readjust the emphasis And this, apparently, is what the rowing authorities intend to do this year. Consciously or unconsciously most of the leading colleges in the East have adopted a system in which, although ultimate responsibility remains divided, the coach has sufficient authority to insure his best work; Harvard...