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Next day the President was back at his desk in Washington, where he found that the gossip currently to the fore was that the "social control bloc" of young liberals in the Administration was chafing at his hesitancy to push longview radical reforms...
...castings had to be scrapped. Liquormen know they will be exposed to fierce public criticism. What got under their skins at the code hearings last week was Washington's bland assumption that they were totally incapable of selfdiscipline. They were convinced that, if given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were keenly aware of their social responsibilities. For his own company, as No. i whiskey man, he cherished the hope that it might some day have the swank of Britain's DCL. Competition would...
...that only the necessity for returning a grade at April causes them to sanction this rude interruption of their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with the introduction of the concentration plan...
...today, and those of the workmen in its employ there is no fundamental community. Our economy is founded on price, and the role of the producer is, even under normal conditions, to keep wages as low as the traffic will bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression in the price level creates a sharp problem in that balance; and when, as is happening today, the producer finds he can make no such concessions as the workers demand, a crisis in the labour market results. Until the abolition...
...magnanimous writing of introductions by academic bigwigs of the Harvard faculty to push the books of their understudies always impresses us. But this close cooperation is not always rewarded. An attractive green book in the Widener Reading Room, in the History 56 shelf bears witness to the way in which the patronizing statements of a full-professor may return to plague and mortify him. We quote from Professor C.H. Haring...