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...value of education is part of our American creed. Institutions run for profit have advertised it broadcast and experience has shown that the college man starts into the world with better assurance of success than the man who never went to college. And young young America is so much aware of this fact that--numerous as our universities and colleges are, and tremendous as is the sum of their enrollment--the demand is greater than the accommodation, and is, becoming one of our biggest national problems...
...fashioned New England supper will be served in the Living Room for $2.00 a plate. The profit will be devoted to the relief of fellow students in famine-stricken lands...
...committees composed of former Rhodes men. Two-thirds of the entire number will constitute a body sufficiently numerous to select their successors. Their fitness for the task is unique. They are acquainted with Oxford and America and are hence more-qualified to select a student whom they think will profit most from English instruction than could be determined from the statistics of that man's college career. They are, besides, in a position to offer the prospective candidates for the scholarships information which would have been of great value to themselves. Selection of future Rhodes scholars by this new method...
...deduct the cost from the Reparations bill has been refused by France. The French Government had feared that her labor unions would indignantly protest against the acceptance of any such prepositions. Her plan was for Germany to work at home and sell the product of her labor at a profit, a part of which would go to France as indemnity. With this money, French laborers were to be paid for rebuilding the wasted provinces. This was a long circuitous plan and would of necessity mean waste and loss of energy...
...excess profits tax, although good in principle in that a aims at assessing income not stimulating to industry, falls down in practice because of the difficulties attending, its administration. In view of the fact that the stated capitalization of most corporations is largely a matter of accident, it follows that a just estimation of the actual return in excess of normal profit cannot in many cases be attained. The evaluation of the surplus income presents a problem no complex that even the Treasury Department can offer no general solution. The continual change in the personnel of that branch...