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...Charles Brook, a London County Councilor, shocked no one last week when he declared: "The time is not far distant when the present panel system will be brought within the scope of the State medical service, and when those now engaged in panel practice will become full-time servants of the State...
...Harvard instructors have already aligned themselves on the side of Dr. Hanfstaengl. In their telegrams of sympathy to him they demand for young American students the right to study freely in a land of such great scientific and cultural traditions as Germany and to be allowed to widen their scope in this way. Moreover, the Harvard Club of Berlin--which is a union of former Harvard students--will busy itself next Friday with this affair...
Altogether, "The Copeland Translations" is a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud. When we consider the scope of the work and the vast amount of reading which serves as its background, we wonder that the selection could have been accomplished, even in the several years Mr. Copeland devoted to it. It is a happy sign that he retired only from classes, not from teaching
There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
...farmer firmly believes that the great Drought of 1934 was the work of God, angry at Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags of coffee-4,000,000,000 lb., worth at last...