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"Is is my considered opinion that football is in real danger today from its friends or rather these who claim to be its friends," says Mr. Okeson. "Financial competition for schoolboys athletes brings evils in its train which more than offset whatever good there may be in furnishing a college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Okeson Fears Overemphasis Will Cause Removal of Football From College Schedules | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

The election had been postponed half a dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Plugger's Victory | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

By last week the gap between living and nonliving things was so narrow as to be almost nonexistent. A century ago the demarcation between organic and inorganic matter was sharp. It grew hazy when chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants in St. Louis | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Hardly a man present knew whether he should again look on the old familiar faces of his colleagues or, if so, under what circumstances. By Feb. 1, the Federal Reserve System is to be reconstituted under the Banking Act of 1935. The Governors of the twelve Reserve Banks may hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Poignant Parting | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

"To educate men in a broad way for public service" is a fine ideal. Whether they will find a suitable place, after education, is another, and serious matter. The School is taking a bold step, but it may, by its very foundation influence events in its own favor. Like most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLAZING THE PATH | 12/11/1935 | See Source »

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