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...Economics here, declares in reference to the recent Walsh-Sweezy case "Once more Harvard has fumbled the ball. Once more the university, in its dismissal of two liberal economic instructors has exasperated its friends and delighted it critics by a clumsy substitution of one impracticable subterfuge for another" Amidst an angry undercurrent of rhetoric, Mr. Lamb moves laboriously on to make his final, crushing point. This it turns out, is that "Harvard has moved a long way to the right. Now a formation of a teachers' union in the Yard . . . . causes the authorities such acute discomfort that the organizers...
...velleities toward the good life, true taste, beautiful women who were also ladies weakened as he drew on toward middle age; but before he had resigned himself to the role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately...
...Cambridge, a superior system is in existence. There is a long Vacation Term. This nebulous assembly does not count as full term, there are no proctors, no bursarial charges, few lectures and few official sports. Officially an opportunity for extra study and vacation work amidst suitable surroundings, this Long Vac Term is a godsend to the man who has no plans for the summer but does not wish to stay at home. Of six thousand undergraduates some thousand are usually in residence for the Long Vac Term. A few of them work, having failed exams in June which they...
...grapple with this Anglo-British declaration Adolf Hitler canceled all other engagements for ten days. The sabre-scarred aristocrats hoped that the mountains of documents were giving him headaches. Seated amidst them Der Reichs-fűhrer talked with Germans whom he trusts, emerged daisy-fresh, dashed to his Bavarian mountain snuggery. There, amid rarefied ozone, the Hitler intuition functions best. Last week the Realmleader again proved he is nobody's fool by releasing a declaration grudgingly admitted in Paris to be "extremely clever...
Calm and cool amidst the feverish preparations for the coming of the country's Chief Executive, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, lends a reassuring and accustomed note to the great influx of assorted government agents, uniformed, plain clothed, and garbed in a variety of terrifying disguises...