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One worrying fact about U. S. foxhunting is its brief, comparatively traditionless history. Author Peters faces the fact, avers time will tell it differently, reminds his supporters that George Washington, though he may not have dressed the part, was an ardent pursuer of foxes. Chief differences between U. S. and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Manure Set | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

A deacon in the Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Clearance | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

The Boston Globe, from which the quotations are taken, avers in its headline that Dr. Wilson "ADVISES RADICAL TEACHERS TO 'GO SLOW'." Now this may have been the point of the address, but if that be so, the portions chosen to illustrate the idea were very ineptly selected, indeed. For...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET'S HAVE THE FACTS | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

Writing in the current issue of the "Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors," Professor Holcombe challenges the paternalistic attitude adopted by University authorities in cases where students have been associated with breaches of the peace. While urging colleges to indulge in no "false sentimentality" when men have failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROTECTING AGITATORS | 11/7/1934 | See Source »

There is something pathetic in the insistence of the old guard in the sacredness of the Constitution, Like the Washington myth, it dies hard, and becomes an article of faith, not of reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/19/1934 | See Source »

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