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...volume of credit, calling attention to the facts that it has no dealings with the speculative markets and no direct contact with the general public; that two-thirds in number of the banks of the country have no discount relations with it at any time, and that it is seldom that more than half of the remaining third, or one-sixth of the total, are borrowing from Reserve Banks...
This marginal controversy may be interesting to those who take part, and in some cases amusing to those who follow, but it seldom adds to the literary value of the book. It is not conducive to the best study, for we note that the author of the above remarks did not continue them beyond the first chapter, and so, presumably, did not read further. Subsequent readers often waste much time in trying to decipher the pencilled comments. Even if all the witticisms were of the order of those mentioned above, there might be some excuse; but the average comment...
...delineation which were disconcerting. In addition Mr. Mantell displayed a pronounced fondness for an indefinite kind of starfish gesture that told the audience he had ten nimble fingers but gained little in adding to the significance of his lines. Mr. Mantell's voice is rich and pleasing, but too seldom did he let it out, and often were whole lines and speeches missed by people in the fifth...
...served the University for thirty years or more in various fields of endeavor. As an undergraduate, both a scholar and an athlete of unusual ability; as a medical student, ever keen and useful; as doctor, a friend of all whom he helped; as coach an inspiration to his charges, Seldom does one man's scope of usefulness cover such an extensive field. His war service with the First Harvard Unit was a credit to the University as well as to himself. As a member of various committees on athletics and as doctor in charge of the football team his services...
...obvious reasons, is as much like the Red Book of the year before as the Telephone Book for "Fall and Winter" is like that for "Spring and Summer" Differences are all largely a matter of degree. Therefore, when an editor manages to introduce a new feature, that has the seldom joined virtues of being novel and at the same time consistent with a somewhat conservative University tradition, he has indeed done something of which he may be proud. The Red Book Committee has not made any radical changes--and in that it has shown its great wisdom, for the tendency...