Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church forbids priests to take sides in political conflicts or civil wars. But Catholic theologians make a broad distinction between material, partisan politics and politics in which moral issues are involved. A priest may attack sterilization laws from the pulpit but not denounce a political party as such. On this controversial subject, much misunderstood by non-Catholics, Pope Pius XI last week made a pronouncement. He gave his august backing to an eminent European prelate who had written: "The hierarchic authority is perfectly entitled to pronounce on any political party or political movement...
...eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal of a broad education, is much the better medicine...
When the council of reason meets, labor's interests will be identical with those of the country as a whole: "The future of organized labor . . . is in a broad sense the future of America . . . [the workers] desire to benefit not only themselves, but all other citizens of this country...
...official comment, including a proposal for an athletic boycott of Japan from H. F. Pash, of the British A. A. A. But the U. S. bustle was about announcement No. 2. In the 1936 Olympics, U. S. colleges contributed Jesse Owens, winner in the 100 and 200 metres, broad jump, relay; John Woodruff, 800 metres; Archie Williams, 400 metres; Forrest Towns and Glenn Hardin, hurdles; Cornelius Johnson, high jump; and Earle Meadows, pole vault. When I. O. C., over U. S., British and French protests, set a date requiring athletes to be in Japan in October, commentators complained that...
...inviting the State Labor Relations Broad to probe the University's conduct, the A.F. of L. has stirred Harvard's labor cauldron and heated its simmering waters to a new boiling point. But the charge that the University has fomented a company union and coerced employees into joining it is neither supported by the facts nor even thoroughly believed by the Federation itself...