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President Conant, desirous that Harvard shall produce men of thorough intellectual importance; outstanding in teaching, research, and leadership, does not wish to dispense with the average man, who has done well-enough in school to warrant his presence at Harvard, and whose term-bills are an invaluable contribution. Europe again offers a solution, a way out of the wasteful "three-legged" partnership between scholar and dunce in their race for a degree. Aside from the vociferous backing of the Harkness Hoot, the two-degree system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum...
...plan to send all its news pictures by telephoto. The idea originated with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which had spent $2,800,000 on a telephoto system, only to abandon it last summer for lack of patronage. Prime reason: pictures were rarely good or important enough to warrant the expense of telephoto transmission instead of fast delivery by airmail. Secondary reasons: there were transmitting stations in only eight cities. It took an hour to prepare a picture for transmission, and the results usually were fuzzy...
...came to me and said, 'I want to see that man Pressard. I know too much about the Stavisky affair and others.' Afterwards he said to me with profound emotion, 'I have just freed my conscience.' He had without knowing it signed his own death warrant...
...five days he enjoyed some hope. Then word came that before going fishing fortnight ago President Roosevelt signed a warrant for Insull's arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...
Student Leaguers feel certain that enough men will leave the classrooms to warrant a general meeting on the steps of Widener Library and that if such is the case that there will be speeches and a distribution of propaganda on pacificism. Circulars were posted in the Houses yesterday, and although the feeling throughout the College is that the strike is no more than a gesture, the N.S.L. feels that many will follow their exhortations...