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...this was admittance to college in general and Harvard in particular may depend, not upon the intelligence or preparation of the applicant but in his financial power to lavish expenditure upon the College Widow and its like. That such methods may suttice admission is unfair to candidates without Wall Street backing. It is also unfair to Harvard, in whose Freshman Class the present system places a group of men whose work, or rather lack of it, lowers standards, bother deans, and in general forms an unhappy fringe insecurely perched upon the local scene by the perpetual support of hired outside...
After their craft capsized the oarsmen clung to it for some time, but despite their efforts the waves drove it against the Basin wall. Later examination revealed an eight inch split in the how and a large hole in the stern...
...spite of the learned opposition, the discussion at Washington will continue to fill many pages of the Congressional Record. Eventually a new tariff bill will be created. College professors will write more books on economic theory, pointing out the fallacies that are the foundation of the protecting wall and in time the nation's representatives will return to debating ways and means of solving the farm problem...
...while local Chambers may speak for local business, the National Chamber has more difficulty in speaking for national business. For the greatest tycoons are indifferent to it. Thus the deliberations of the Chamber this week were of little importance in Wall Street or in the operations of greatest industrial concerns...
Carl Brandt, artist: "Art is that subject of conversation which was made demode first by the advent of Prohibition and second by the unpleasantness in Wall Street...