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Canada had an 8 cent freight rate advantage over the U. S. to the world market. The U. S. surplus could be moved only at a loss. It was not moving, yet estimates showed that some 200 billion bushels must move before the next harvest...
Western railroad executives then met in Washington to consider similar reductions which, if added to those by the eastern carriers, would move each bushel out of the glutted midwest to Atlantic seaports at about 9 cents per bushel cheaper than at present. The Shipping Board was approached to establish emergency freight rates on wheat to European ports as an additional means of increasing the outflow from...
...Harvard Debating Council voted last night to withdraw from the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League. Although no formal statement was issued by the Council, it was ascertained that the University speakers made the move in order to be independent of the policies of the League, which were characterized as being too strongly marked with the purpose of winning...
...present system. The ramifications of the various Amateur Athletic Unions have after all accomplished something. The tramp athlete is a character of history; there has been much codification and standardization of rules. This is almost a period of laissez faire, so far as any general clean-up-athletics move goes. In its place exist the intricate individual agreements that hold only within small groups of colleges; this is in line with the increasing apartness of institutions, now in the phase of leagues, and perhaps eventually to be narrowed down everywhere to the meeting of only two or three rival colleges...
...laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently no insurmountable difficulty stands in the path of progress, it seems but reasonable to expect that minor details can and should be arranged to provide for the interests of no small number of students. A move to bring longer laboratory hours to Harvard will but increase the value of the material additions being made for the study of science...