Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This small but vigorous "rebel" church, a vexation to the Presbyterian Church from which it split, was lately ordered by a Philadelphia court to give up its too-similar name (TIME, Jan. 31), but has continued to use it pending an appeal. Last week the rebel church was again thrown for a loss by a New Jersey court decision which had nationwide significance. New Jersey's Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis ruled that although a rebel Presbyterian congregation could secede from the parent church, it could not take its church building-which it had paid for-along with...
...been previously explained, the whole plan of not reporting attendance in advanced courses which are taken primarily by Juniors and Seniors is being tried as an experiment. An especial appeal is made to undergraduates not to abuse the present system...
Some subscribers responded with dollars, a few volunteered $5 and $10. But other publishers whose agents had sold Literary Digest in combination with their own magazines were grieved because the Digest's suspension and appeal for funds threatened to involve them in difficulties with their own subscribers. So great was trade agitation that the Audit Bureau of Circulations, trade association which watches over such matters, called a hasty session. Rebuked, the Digest last week returned its subscribers' contributions, petitioned U. S. District Court for permission to reorganize under Section 776 of the Bankruptcy...
...That Poet Rukeyser has shaken her own complacencies first is shown in her book's 20-odd other poems, notably The Drowning Young Man, probably the best poem on a suicide yet written in America. Taken all together, the poems are an exciting and, on the whole, trustworthy appeal to all the belligerents who [and only who, if you ask Poet Rukeyser] know the world. Only these, she implies, can be in on the secret of what really happened yesterday at Gauley Bridge, is happening today in Spain...
These reporters and editorial writers are bringing to Harvard a wide variety both of backgrounds and of experiences. As intelligent members of the working world, especially of the newspaper business, they should have great practical appeal to undergraduates. Besides those intending to enter journalism after graduation, students interested in hearing about the real side of labor and politics will want to meet the Fellows. The university can easily recognize this chance of introducing the world to Harvard by inviting men to attend the Fellowship discussions and perhaps by inducing certain of the Fellows to hold informal chats occasionally...