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...might cast the sceptical eye at the Florida institution and visualize it a number of years hence, it must be confessed that it does not hold the promise suggested by its present brilliant success. Primarily, any venture of this type depends upon an immediate vigorous leader whose judgment of teaching ability is not limited by customary scholastic standards. This function Dr. Holt fulfills. But under a man of more limited human qualities it is easy to see that mere second rate teachers, or worse, job seekers, may take the place of the present professors...
President Lowell, in his recent report to the Board of Overseers, characterized the reading period as a "bold experiment," the success of which is expressed by the judgment that "they have, in general, accomplished the purposes for which they were intended...
...dealt a grant of power to the Federal Government so large that only state conventions of the people themselves could constitutionally approve the transfer. Judge Clark accepted this argument and expanded it into a monumental thesis of his own which packed twelve tight news-columns of print. The Judgment. Judge Clark reasoned as follows: 1) Article V of the Constitution provides for ratification of amendments "by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or by conventions in three-fourths thereof." 2) Amendment X provides that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited...
...Senate Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit...
Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known these findings concerning the strain of flying upon the flyer: bodily resources become exhausted, "staleness" sets in. The flyer loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...