Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called back to F. E. (as State Department officials call the Far Eastern Division). Here he learned for the first time what the State Department really is: not a policy-making machine, not a stable of thoroughbred cutaway-horses, not a mess of pigeonholes, but an extremely expert research body for the use of one man, the President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action...
...departure from its traditionally inactive role as the academic honor society the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday voted to issue a call to all student organizations urging them to join in the formation of a committee to preserve academic freedom...
...This is in no sense a political group. The purpose is simply the maintenance of intellectual standards on the camp us. The preservation of these standards demand complete freedom that students and Faculty be permitted to say what they will to hear whom they will, and to call whatever meetings they will...
Three members of last year's Freshman team, Harry Blaine, Ray Stone, and Dick Thomas will fight in the lighter brackets. Blaine takes over the 121-pound class vacated by the graduation of last year's captain. Harvey Ross, and Stone gets the call at 135-pounds after defeating Al Richter in a close tryout Thursday afternoon...
...Harvard basketball team, only one of whose members has ever played in a varsity game before and only one of whose members can call himself six feet, opens its season against a tall, experienced M.I.T. outfit this evening at 8:45 o'clock on the Indoor Athletic Building floor...