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...years was out of all proportion to the seriousness of the crime. Small-town burglars and grocery store robbers usually get as much and more than this for offences incomparably less vicious and less inexcusable. It is but natural to demand that the laws be made more strict and the punishment more drastic...
...There must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency...
...action would constitute a reversal of Harvard's newer policy which stresses "athletics for all." If financial stringencies point inevitably toward such a stop in order to balance the H.A.A. budget, it is time once more to demand a sane budget founded on an endowment fund made possible through strict economies and a fixed revenue realized by the placement of a standard fee on all undergraduate term bills...
...enforcement of a rule which as a general principle is irreproachable, the Masters have gone to extreme lengths, laying a strict ban on inter-House transfers. The result has been a hardship imposed upon a considerable number of men. If a resident has good reasons for wanting to move to another House, and if no one is inconvenienced by the transfer, it is foolish to allow vague conceptions of House spirit to stand in the way. In a year of depression it argues a certain stubbornness for Masters to refuse permission for inter-House transfers to men who can secure...
Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect would (under the new 20th Amendment) have succeeded to the Presidency if Zangara's bullets had found their intended mark, did not hear the news until the following day, so strict is his hotel rule against being disturbed at night...