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...President's announcement stirred the business world. He himself studied lists of industrial leaders to summon to the Cabinet Room, eyed such names as Owen D. Young, Thomas William Lament. Julius Rowland Barnes, Daniel Willard, William Green. Four group conferences were arranged: 1) potent railroad presidents; 2) tycoons of industry and finance; 3) husbandmen; 4) laboring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action Counts | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...This lament of Mr. Snedder is somewhat a propose in consideration of the fact that in many colleges the educational atmosphere is effectively diffused under the pressure of extra-curricular functions. However, his desire to concentrate the scope of the student, especially that of men interested in pre-professional work falls very short of helping the situation. Under the present conditions the efforts of most college men are allowed to follow one subject to the exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE WRONG END | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew, relying on ultra-scientific training; these are far too complex for a mere player to teach as he plays; and wasn't there, sometime, somewhere, a lament about the overburdened college athlete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMATEURIZING ATHLETICS | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...your editorial of Wednesday, November sixth, entitled the "Grain and the Chaff", commenting on the recommendation of books by a committee acting for the Cooperative Society, you lament that the committee deals only with non-fiction and you suggest that other forms of literature might very profitably be included in their survey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Books | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...there anything intangible about the man who steered the ship of U. S. prosperity through the storm, who at length felt the helm respond. More than most men, Thomas William Lament can be touched, appraised. In obvious and literal ways, this right hand of John Pierpont Morgan is freely extended among men. A cosmopolite, he knows, understands, and likes the thousands of people of all nations with whom he does business. Because he is patient and urban, he is the Morgan diplomat. In more subtle ways, Mr. Lament can be described as a tangible person. Tell him a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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