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...Greatly Enhanced.' President Hoover's moratorium stopped Young Plan payments, apparently for good & all, but oddly enough the Cash Register of the Young Plan continues to function. Between them President McGarrah, Alternate Fraser and their Board have developed profitable B. I. S. sidelines in handling League of Nations loans, and transfers among Europe's central banks. In his 1932 report President McGarrah was able to show a B. I. S. profit for the fiscal year of 15,182,818 Swiss francs ($2,929,524) and proudly declared, "It is a satisfaction to confirm that the usefulness...
...with Medical Dean David Linn Edsall getting angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control it by means of a patent, that should be applied...
...hope of success on its convenient schedules. It not only borrowed railroad tactics but got the Pennsylvania Railroad to handle its tickets and to admit Ludington buses to the Penn terminal in Manhattan. At the end of the first year Ludington had carried 66,000 passengers, showed a net profit of $8,073. Skeptics wondered if the Ludington books were kept in the manner required of airmail operators by the Post Office Department; Executive Vice President Gene Vidal insisted that a profit of even $28,000 might have been rightfully claimed...
...longer is he able to repeat lectures; his methods of instruction must vary according to the changing composition of each class. Yet he establishes, in a way impossible under the lecture system, close contact with the student and with his special needs, whereas the student cannot fail to profit immeasurably from intimate association with authorities and specialists in various directions...
...Tutorial System, there must obviously be a more specific control by the tutor over the curriculum of his Tutees. Quite dogmatically, at least for the present; the CRIMSON proposes the following methods of control, which some departments have adopted in part, and which others might examine with profit. In the first place, although all men should be given a fair chance to "react favorably" to individual tutorial instruction during the Sophomore year, there should be a definite prestige given to such instruction in the last two years. Late in the Sophomore year, or during the first part of the Junior...