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There are only two redeeming features to this article. It may inspire principals who have latent abilities to exert themselves. It may be effective advertising for the School of Education...
...university, while not considered perfect, are not generally within the list of things to be blamed for existing imperfections in English society. He complacently places them at the head of the list of things which "have made us what we are"; and does not dream too eagerly of those latent forces which if developed would make us what we might become...
...with that half of the world where coin is not gold or gold-backed paper but silver, the East. Roundly Sir Hugo declared that the gold standard countries of the West must increase the purchasing power of silver (now at its all time low) in order to release the latent, stupendous buying power of the East. How do this? Sir Hugo admitted that he could think of nothing better than the William Jennings Bryan plan of linking silver legally to gold at some fixed ratio.* Careful not to make himself too explicit, tobacco's Sir Hugo generalized: "The shade...
President Lowell has teemed business the oldest of the arts, the newest of professions. As it takes its place among the older professions, it must and, to some extent, has recognized the challenge latent in their tinct of altruism. Today restless millions turn for economic leadership; history clearly shows the indifferent ruling class its way to destruction. The Age of the Machine has brought shorter hours for man's work. Culture of construction must follow or this new leisure is achieved in vain. Harvard shall not be backward in the expert consideration of these problems of transition...
...Versailles because of sudden change would be a great danger. Europe must progressively change economically and politically also. We cannot compete with Russia if we do not unite, because Russia has the power to modify the whole European economic situation. The conflict between right and fact is always a latent and predominant one in Europe...