Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provincialism. Also, in spite of the probably correct opinion of the scholars that Harvard is not yet a National Institution, they agree that they "get a lot out of it", and enjoy it besides. These goods are directly and immediately produced by the new scholarship policy. But without the indirect effects of advertisement, the good to Harvard as an institution ends with the influence on twenty scholars per year, and that, considering the expense, is small utility...
...seems, without any reflection on the present group of scholars, that in the future they should be selected more frankly and deliberately according to the indirect ends they are to serve. Any scholar who stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates...
...Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court is without power to substitute a different judgment for that of Congress." Supreme Court: "Where the effect of intrastate transactions upon interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within the domain of state power." Judge Hamilton: "The mining of coal may not affect interstate commerce, but combined with the work of the miner, the transportation and marketing thereof may become interstate commerce in its entirety." Supreme Court: "If the commerce clause were construed to reach...
...matter of fact that England is protecting her imperial brood. If direct evidence is not enough, then indirect evidence comes to reinforce the verdict. When Japan had begun its Manchurain adventure, England remained sublimely all of to the many pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now in parallel circumstances the lordly power takes measures of intimidation and oppression against the new aggressor, and induces a large part of the rest of the world to join in righteous indignation. No explanation other than imperial interest can begin to account for these merry-go-round tactics...
Haley himself said yesterday that "A rule has been technically violated unknown to me." Some took this statement to mean that the gift of financial support was made by indirect means and never actually reached Haley at all. Others took it to mean that Haley has unwittingly stepped across the Eligibility Rules' strict lines...