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...general health of the people is at a higher level today than ever before. . . . There have been less strikes than even in normal times. . . . I finally secured the passage of the [Home Loan Bank] bill. ... I have practically prohibited all immigration. . . . We have fought a great battle to maintain the stability of the American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment. . . . Let no man say that things could not have been worse. Things could have been so much worse that today would look like prosperity...
...deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate his opportunities, no more administration of an oath will boost him suddenly out of his adolescence...
...Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain friendly trade relations with Soviet Russia; 4) bar from ever rejoining the Labor party not only James Ramsay MacDonald but also Viscount Snowden, J. H. Thomas and every former Labor M. P. who has voted for the National Government...
After a period of intestine strife the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art is preparing for the coming season under the direction of its undergraduate board which assumed control as a result of the reorganization of last spring. This year the struggle to maintain the Society will be even greater than last and it will prove a severe test for the new administration. Support, whether financial or moral, is no longer lavished indiscriminately by the general public and the Society "must produce the goods" if it would continue to live...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...