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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who promote and give publicity to this sort of petition only call attention to the presence at Harvard of numerous "liberals" of this unwholesome type. Their publicity antics serve merely to convince the University that radical thinkers like Hicks constitute a dangerous influence on immature minds. Worse still, these agitators confirm the proponents of the Teachers' Oath Bill in their belief that academic liberties must be restrained. Avery Dulles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/13/1939 | See Source »

Specific recommendations included in the current Council report call for "definite preference" to Junior and Senior applicants (already adopted); virtual guarantee of admission to all Dean's List Freshmen; stricter adherence to an "intellectual cross-section"; leniency toward men applying in groups; reduction of the number of graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL SEEKS CHANGES IN HOUSE ADMISSIONS | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...obscure whaling captain-and forgot them. In 1933, French sailors from the surveying ship Astrolabe and the dispatch vessel Alerte, finding a handful of Chinese living happily on the reefs on coconuts, bananas, sweet potatoes and succulent turtles, hoisted a French flag on each island, blew a bugle call, buried bottles containing a French claim to the islands-and forgot them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gypsy Trick | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...told reporters they would not take a honeymoon until Gable was through making Gone With the Wind, and Lombard her next picture, Memory of Love, for RKO. They expected, within two weeks, to move into Gable's ranch house in San Fernando Valley. They did not expect to call it "the House of the Seven Gables." Asked whether she would retire and have children, Carole Lombard blushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Gets Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile a call for student delegated to the Conference was issued by the editors of the undergraduates papers of the three colleges. Approximately twenty-five students and five Faculty members from each will attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tydings Heads List of Speakers Selected for H-Y-P Conference | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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