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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very pattern of a modern Major-General; I've information vegetable, animal and mineral. Wheezy, ruddy retirement looms before U. S. major-generals as they approach 64. But Major General William Kuthven Smith, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point is stocky, active. A cadet from 1888 to 1892, he was for eleven years an instructor in mathematics, philosophy, ordnance &; gunnery. Truly he might have said looking about for something to do after he retires from the active list and the superintendency this week: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical; I understand equations, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ph.D. | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...beautiful things in life and the flowers, the birds and the trees are a never-ending mystery of enchanting excitement for us. In our time we have done our Bit; but just now we are cynics, made bitter by the vagaries of the so-called elements and by the approach of Divisionals whose wintry threats chill our marrow and send us to the movies, the theatre, and the Bottle for unsatisfactory relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sumer is Icumen in Lude Sing Cuckoo | 4/26/1932 | See Source »

Third, fourth, and fifth on the list are respectively Bio-Chemical Sciences, History, and Romance Languages; the figures for these approach very closely those recorded from the class of 1934 last spring. Among the numerically less conspicuous fields, the enrollment in Philosophy, the Classics, and Astronomy have fallen off by approximately half the totals for last year. Another not able trend brought out by the statistics is the increased interest in Psychology, and Anthropology, indicated by the doubly large registration in those fields this year as compared with 1931. This year's Freshman class numbers about 40 less men than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCENTRATION IN ECONOMICS DROPS SHARPLY IN 1935 | 4/20/1932 | See Source »

...proof of a pudding is in the eating, and the fact that this course is overcrowded testifies to its strong appeal. One might imagine from reading your editorial that English 72 was devoted exclusively to the pedantic examination of minutiae, a method of approach with which the writer, for one, has no sympathy whatever. The truth about English 72 is that its head has brought all his forceful scholarship to bear upon such things, while retaining his own remarkable sense of values and proportion. What interests Mr. Lowes in these Romantics, after their mysterious genius, is their humanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/20/1932 | See Source »

...influence of the McClatchys beyond their rural constituencies does not approach that which Editor Rowell wielded in his prime. Lecturer on political science, regent of the University of California, member of the National Crime Commission, Institute of Pacific Relations and many another body, he is still regarded by oldsters as the sage of the Pacific Coast. Long active in politics, he was most conspicuous as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee in the Hughes campaign for President. Hughes's loss of California to Wilson was popularly ascribed to his failure to handshake California's Governor Hiram Warren Johnson, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: McClatchys' Spread | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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