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Coolidge. President Coolidge last week announced after an analysis of country-wide scope that business and trade conditions of the U. S. were healthy. In the opinion of the President trade trends showed a continued advance. His statement caused a slight increase in prices on the stock market but for just one day. Wall Street, reasoning that the Chief Executive is usually optimistic, scrutinized his remarks with care. Some brokers questioned them. The loss in railway net receipt "is not great" was a contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered...
...brought against men for the break-down of defective rented automobiles, to non-support claims and divorce proceedings. Twenty cases have already been handled or are in court at the present time, while many more have been considered, but were not accepted because unsuited to the purposes or the scope of the Bureau. Aid is given only in circumstances which render the employment of a registered lawyer by the contestant financialy impossible...
...Chairman and Secretary of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House decided to extend the scope of the Phillips Brooks House Association by renewing the Legal Aid Bureau. In the spring of 1914 they secured a desk at the Prospect Union where they met clients and carried on the work of a small law office...
President Eliot added: "Knowing the difficulties of observing with precision over a long period of restrictions of a definite or detailed character especially as regards the purchase of books, I should expect that some latitude would be used in interpreting the scope of each of the subjects specified, and I should also prefer to regard these subjects as suggestive rather than mandatory...
...knowledge should rely on the Vagabond's tutelage. The Vagabond scarcely pretends to act as a substitute for the distributional system. What he has to offer is of a cosmopolitan nature in that it is composed of foreign elements, the filling of gaps in student ignorance is beyond the scope of mere vagabondage...