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...Harvard before deciding to attend Yale, Counter said. According to the Internet Movie Database, Washington is currently working on a film titled “The Great Debaters,” based on the story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College in Texas during the 1930s who trained a team of students that would defeat Harvard in the national debate championship. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Denzel Goes ‘Inside’ Yard | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...2013.However, not all of the art will return to Cambridge. As the rejected 1998 plans testify, HUAM’s modern and contemporary art collection is growing beyond its currently cramped gallery space.“The Art Museums have been committed to modern and contemporary art since the 1930s, when the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and the Busch-Reisinger Museum first began mounting exhibitions of contemporary art and acquiring important examples for their collections,” Lentz wrote last year in an e-mail.“There were no clear plans to develop the necessary facilities...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet and Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Moving Pictures | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...publication of “Middletown”—a best-selling anthropological study of a Midwestern community—the search for the “average American” in the public opinion polls of George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure themselves with, different from any tool they...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Igo’s History Scores Above ‘Average’ | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...quite startling to someone who has spent too much time around Middle Eastern armies. "We hope for the best but prepare for the worst," said Colonel Advitya Madan, the unit's commander, as he served tea with the battalion silver, which also includes tug-of-war trophies from the 1930s. Then he went off to drill the battalion, which was waiting on the parade ground in full dress uniform, in preparation for a medal ceremony to be held several weeks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keepers of the (Inner) Peace | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...When the Houses were first built in the early 1930s, the Prohibition movement was still in force. But a love of good wine is more difficult to prohibit...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wine, Academics Prove Good Mix | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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