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...drafting the “Ivy Group Agreement,” the presidents of the universities in the 1930s and 1940s agreed to “continue intercollegiate football,” while maintaining a necessary “proportion to the main purpose of academic life.” When the football world was split up again into today’s Division I-A and Division I-AA, it became clear that the Ivy League would join Division...
...Hitler Regime,” contains some damning accusations against Harvard and in particular former University President, James B. Conant ’14. And Norwood is probably on point about many of the anti-Semitic attitudes and actions endorsed by individual Harvard professors, students and alumni during the 1930s. This is, of course, a sad fact of history. But that Norwood singles out Harvard as the main perpetrator in his paper—on the basis of some seemingly tenuous links—makes us wonder why he has chosen to focus solely on one institution when anti-Semitism...
...Obviously the positions taken by The Crimson in the 1930s are pretty regrettable, and I’m sure current members of The Crimson would find these views abhorrent,” said The Crimson’s Managing Editor Elisabeth S. Theodore ’05, a panelist at yesterday’s talk...
...most striking change is the influx of new creative voices and stylistic experiments. Children's theaters started in the 1930s as amateur community projects, mainly doing adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs...
...DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth...