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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However regrettable it may be, too definite a rule covering all cases of a particular kind can not be followed religiously is making House assignments. While the Council feels very strongly that all efforts should be made to admit Dean's List men to the Houses, it realizes the impossibility of a definite guarantee of such admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Demands New House To Alleviate Admission Dissatisfaction | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Though one may be prejudiced against concerts of this kind because he is not asked to pay for them, one should be forced to admit that the choice of music is often far above average; and when the performance is on a similar plane, as can be expected in these two concerts, the result will give the greatest possible pleasure to the listener and--what is almost as important--to the performer...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

...dream of a completely rationalized and goosestep-clicking German industry was remembered by some of his young disciples who became Nazis. Hitler's first and second Four-year plans for making Germany self-sufficient owe more to Rathenau's social thinking than any Nazi would dare to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wehrwirtschaft | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Ministry grudgingly hired an Englishman, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across in a me-to-you, or Boake Carter way, he remarked in his tryout broadcast: "I admit that I am a renegade, but I am still an Englishman, and I ask you to bear with me." That was the end of him. Now the job is handled by a German announcer whose mother was English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Alarums | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...principles already in practice when they recommend that the National Scholarship men and Student waiters receive preference over men of equal records; near-sighted because in recommending that all Dean's List men be assured of admission, they are contradicting their own position since their cry has been to admit the all-around man rather than the so-called "grind." The proposal to assure admission to all Group IV men who have engaged in three or more major activities is rather shallow because it leaves the road open for the dabbler--a man who puts his fingers into everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

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