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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevented in the election of courses and concentration fields. Athletes, especially, have in the past been shoved willynilly into non-scientific courses simply because laboratory attendants must get home for supper at half-past five. Only a few mental giants have ever used their work on the gridiron to attain a fuller understanding of comparative anatomy, and the principle underlying the use of sliding seats in shells avails little in passing Physics C laboratory requirements. Similarly, lengthening of reading pariods will help group one students to cover their special assignments flawlessly, even if it does aid those cursed with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN MALLINCKRODT | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...Tiger players feel that tomorrow is the day when Princeton should at last string scoring form which it has failed to attain in its opening four encounters. Only against Penn have the Tigers evidenced some of the offensive which they pack on paper, and yet against Penn, lack of scoring punch handed Princeton its second defeat in 31 games. This despite the fact that the Crisler men outgained the Quakers by a wide margin...

Author: By Sturges Hedrick, | Title: Princeton Eleven, Faced With Letdown, Instead Is Brimming With Confidence | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

...Walker County Governor Graves dispatched his Superintendent of Education, his Commissioner of Labor, and lean Lawrence Lee, his own labor expert and onetime law partner. Sputtered the Governor: "These children shall not be crucified to attain any end, whatsoever. . . . And that's saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Striking Scholars | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON FENCE | 10/6/1936 | See Source »

Restlessness and sleeplessness being precisely what doctors try to attain in treating cases of mid-day drowsiness, called narcolepsy, a few doctors tried benzedrine solutions as remedy, found that narcoleptics became not only alert, but cheerful and energetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trial & Error | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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