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...size of the undergraduate body, the proliferation of all kinds of different courses and subjects to meet the restless needs of the time, the appearance of vast and expensive educational "plant," the semi-industrialization of athletics, the development of great endowment funds and the necessity for endowment "drives" to maintain and expand them, and, finally, the replacement of the nineteenth-century college president by the business executive competent to care for these elaborate and pressing interests--all this has the appearance of a natural process, as unconscious and as difficult to control as such processes usually...
...rate, it is almost obvious that the system of the reading period, with its ultimate benefits, can only be appreciated by those willing to work with it. The average and below-average undergraduates will probably maintain about the same standard of work as before, whereas hard-working and brilliant students are able to decidedly profit...
Never personally fond of President Hoover,* Citizen Coolidge wrote: In the general field of agriculture, government interference in an attempt to maintain prices out of the Treasury is almost certain to make matters worse in stead of better. It disorganizes the whole economic fabric...
...turvy economic results. In the face of a falling world market the Board bought Chicago wheat around 76? per bu., pegged the domestic price at that leve. George S. Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., declared: "Domestic conditions do not justify lower prices and this company will continue . . . to maintain the present or a higher level...
...good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop of his OX-Waco. went aloft. Few minutes later he landed, told skeptics that his plane had flown 10 m.p.h. faster than normally; that his engine had to turn only 1,260 r.p.m. instead of 1,320 to maintain altitude. On the advice of friendly airmen Inventor Perry planned to reduce the weight (30 Ib.) of his anti-drag fan, ask the Army Air Corps to conduct experiments with...