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...sweet uses of Charity, few men are more versed than John D. Rockefeller Jr., good Baptist. None knows better than he that it is more blessed to give than to beg. Last week, having himself given $35,000 to a Jewish charities campaign in Manhattan and, with the Rockefeller Foundation, $1,050,000 to the Emergency Unemployment Relief Campaign, he delivered a little lecture on the begging phase of Charity to a luncheon for relief workers. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rockefeller on Begging | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could see into the hearts of the editors they should see there the genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation's press. After all, the News belongs to the student body and they should, by rights, pay some attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

...Beg to remind TIME U. S. C. scored on twice before during this year-in the Rose Bowl New Year's game Jan. i, 1932 with Tulane, final score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...along the Atlantic Coast. The Eskimos of Greenland. Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land may well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Grounded Lollipops | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...cheering sections of our opponents are a shameful contrast to our own. How many cheer leaders of other colleges have to beg their men to "make some noise? I wonder how many of the present undergraduate body know the words of even one of Harvard's great football songs? So few that the University Band has given up playing them and gives us instead medleys of largely irrelevant, albeit well--played music. In parenthesis I should like to congratulate the Band on its magnificent spirit at New Haven last Saturday. That made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Dear Old Wabash . . . | 11/22/1932 | See Source »

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