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...worry about the future of English literature," said T. S. Eliot in an interview given to the CRIMSON yesterday. "People of today," he continued, "seem to me to worry too much about the future, I mean that part of the future which is beyond the scope of our own activity. Such worrying is neither good reason nor good Christianity, nor is it a good exercise for literary criticism...
...beneath its superficial aspects it is impossible to escape the conclusion that our society suffers critically from over-specialization. Our great industrial and financial structure is conducted wholly by specialists. The field of specialization of each business leader is, practically speaking, limited to some one company and the scope of his most general thinking rarely ranges beyond production, sales, and finance. Yet it is a safe generalization that for all such companies no decision or series of decisions made by their chief executives affects their specialized interests so vitally as the complex social forces which make up this national...
Citizens in the fourth largest U. S. city and in most of the other Michigan cities & towns last week found themselves in much the same predicament. Governor William A. Comstock's banking moratorium, unprecedented in scope (TIME, Feb. 20), had suddenly cut them off with the cash they had in their pockets. People were chary of giving small bills for big ones. By the time the moratorium was modified after two days to permit withdrawals up to 5% of deposits, the scarcity of money was acute. Even Governor-reject Brucker was forced to borrow $10. Newsboys had to sell...
...evaluated in view of the field in which tutorial and research work is done. In some cases, as in most of the natural sciences, exclusive interest in research would militate against valuable tutorial work because the character of the study and the theories involved would ordinarily fall outside the scope of undergraduate interest. This would apply to any sectionalized or minute study in any field, such as the "Love-life of oysters in Chesapeake Bay" (reputedly the subject of a Ph.D. thesis in Biology,) or the legendary contribution to learning on "The Shoe-String Industry in Massachusetts." But in some...
...past year has been how they might bring about the necessary economies which have been forced upon them by the shrinkage of the University's income. Although the actual inauguration of these measures falls outside the periods covered by the report, the necessary preliminary planning lay within its scope...