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...Significance. Mr. Harding's interpretation of the law is important because it gives the Chief Executive wider power over the tariff than was intended when the law was drawn. Only half an hour before President Harding met the Tariff Commission, Senator Smoot, who was responsible for the elastic provision of the Tariff Act, called at the White House and told the President that Congress had no intention of giving the Tariff Commission general permission to rewrite the tariff...
...Coolidge has probably had wider experience than any other architect in the country in the arrangement of institutional buildings, since he has designed the arrangement of structures at Leland Stanford University, the Chicago Art Institute, the Medical School group in Pekin, China, the buildings of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, in addition to the Harvard Medical School and the Freshman Dormitories...
...President always listens to Mrs. Harding when either his personal or political affairs are concerned. She shares his life in a fuller, deeper, and wider measure than do the wives of most public men. She has played a larger part in bringing her husband to his present eminence than is commonly suspected; but persons who have been about Mrs. Harding through the years know it and take the circumstances into account. It makes Mrs. Harding a factor and a figure in considering the probable course of public affairs."-Edward G. Lowry in a signed editorial in The Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...Durstine, whose subject was "The Function of the Advertising Agency", opened his talk with a discussion of the purposes and various classifications of advertising. He defined advertising as "a printed salesman", adding that it is far more efficient than ordinary salesmen, for it travels further and covers a far wider field at much less expense. "The function of the agency", he continued, "is to discover by research and study where the advertising of its customers will be most effective, and to place it there. It may take months or a year to determine the exact situation, but the most effective...
...Director of Physical Education describes the most important phases of Freshman sports and cites statistics showing the increase in athletic interest and the wider use made by students of the University's athletic facilities. A condensed text of the report follows...