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...carrying the weak ones, thus freeing their liquid assets for more constructive purposes. The one great danger cited is that R. F. C. may so load itself up with all the frozen securities now clogging the banks that it will itself go into a frigid state and sink out of helpfulness...
...little intellectually. That a university B. A. or Ph. B. degree is of purely social significance is generally recognized. But here too it must be realized that Yale, contrary to the practice of many of her contemporaries, at least provides the outline of a liberal education that does not sink to the fantastic absurdities of salesmanship and, to borrow from Flexner, ad hoc courses. Yale standards are such that the feels content if she can turn out thoroughly sound and worthwhile members of American society. She must provide for men whose intellectual diet has been a preaching of conformity, hard...
...friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like a truck driver swigging whiskey from a bottle...
There are two causes behind this paradox. One is the natural desire of donors to see their gift take permanent and tangible form, as in a building, and their natural reluctance to sink money in the bottomless pool of unattached funds. The other important factor that has been overlooked is the lack of proportion shown in apportioning money within a given fund. It is bad planning of this sort that decks house libraries lavishly with Oriental rugs while it scrimps on accomodations for the tutors who are so essential to the full working of the house plan...
...Think how many weeks it has been since a derby sat smartly on your head. Think how long it has been since you unfolded damask across your lap in sitting down to dinner. It is all very well to rusticate but it is not so fine to sink so deeply into country ways that you forget that Hanover is a very small town indeed and its customs very simple...