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...only legitimate and useful purpose for which a nation should maintain armaments is for self defense. . . . Armaments may reach a point where they cease to give security. . . . The expenditures on armaments are greater today than they were before the War. . . . We are not going to pull very far out of this Depression unless we reduce armaments and make a genuine success of this Conference...
...geniuses flourished during this period," Professor Eliot continued, "but I regret that some of the plays are not better than they are. The desire for comic relief on the part of the audience is a craving of human nature, due to an inability to concentrate. An audience which can maintain its attention on pure tragedy is more highly civilized than any other audience. 'Racine's 'Berenice', in this respect represents a peak of human civilization...
...financial difficulties of the Lampoon are no surprise to those well acquainted with the problems of maintaining undergraduate publications in the face of economic retrenchment on all sides. The temporary crisis which confronts the most venerable college comic in the country may deprive Harvard of one of her oldest institutions. Despite occasional lapses into adolescent bad taste, the Lampoon, in face of falling subscriptions and hostile trends "has endeavored to maintain a high standard of clean wholesome humor...
...commenting on the winter exercise classes Mr. Fradd said, yesterday: "We naturally do not expect to change a man's posture from D to A in six weeks of supervised exercise, but we do maintain that we can reeducate him in the fundamentals of balance. It is interesting to note in connection with these classes, that 40 per cent of the men taking them ask for continuance of the six weeks of compulsory attendance...
...addition to helping "starving musicians" the Emergency Aid has a fund from which it makes loans to famed artists who must maintain themselves in a semblance of style...