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...notion seems to be prevalent that the inspirational teacher must of necessity, be an interior scholar. It seems to students that just the opposite is true: that the highest scholarship is that which is riches in human values and that the presence of this additional human quality is that which distinguishes the scholar teacher from the pedant of the old Germanic school...
...members of the Interstate Commerce Commission with few exceptions. The "cut rates" on long hauls are the result of competition with water routes-ocean, lake or Panama Canal. A railroad gets business in the first instance for service which water routes cannot render (service of speed, service to interior localities), for which it charges presumably a fair rate. But the more business a railroad gets, the less its operating cost per ton per mile, the greater its profits. So, to swell the volume of its business, a railroad will take business at "cut rates" which otherwise it would...
Senators Lenroot, Fess, Bruce urged that, if the transcontinental business were practically taken from the railroads and given to the ships, the railroads would be forced to raise their rates on all traffic, and even the interior Rocky Mountain states would lose in the end. Up spake keen Mr. Walsh of Montana; prodded the three Senators lustily for daring to imply that the business men of the Rocky Mountain states did not know what was good for them. At last, with 26 minutes left, Senator Gooding of Idaho rose for the final speech. Said...
Malvy. Minister of Interior Louis Malvy departed for Nice during the week, there to recuperate from the shock to his nerves caused when he was ruthlessly attacked in the Chamber (TIME, March 29) and fainted dead away. It was later rumored that he would resign. Thus M. Briand was placed in a slightly better position for conciliating the potent enemies of Malvy on the Right, who want him out of the Cabinet at all costs. His equally important friends on the Left found themselves in a position to let him slip out under the age-old cloak of diplomats, "illness...
...adjacent Colombia clutched their parched throats and prayed fervently for rain. By last week the drought conditions had become so severe as to cause the Magdalena River to fall until navigation was no longer possible for boats of commercial tonnage. The problem of getting necessary supplies to the parched interior was acute...