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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers...
Yale University's distinguished President Angell vilified measures directed against free thought in teaching last Saturday. Speaking before an Alumni Day gathering on the Harvard campus, Dr. Angell remarked, "Consider the utterly ridiculous condition which compels President Conant of Harvard to take such an oath, while it allows a recently naturalized foreign priest to pour out over the radio the most poisonous and inflammatory economic and social nonsense." In addition, Dr. Angell was indignant over the "outrageous implication" that teachers are less loyal than other community groups...
FEDERAL FUNDS for the completion of 465 campus building projects have been allotted by the Works Progress Administration after approval by President Roosevelt and assistant WPA administrator Aubrey Williams. The federal government is providing $6,120,414 for these projects, while the institutions are providing $1,343,505. Exactly 14,935 workers (some of whom are students) are being given employment on these projects, which will provide 68,778 man years of labor when completed. Mr. Williams is also administrator of the National Youth Administration which is giving 118,889 under-graduates employment as $15 per month...
Jack Pool, sentenced to "indefinite suspension" is at home in Raleigh Codifying the laws of N. C. U.'s unwritten campus constitution. He may apply for readmission at the beginning of the next quarter, April 1. Meanwhile, other students, alumni and faculty are working on radical alterations of the student government system...
...Drang N. Osten, the promising young author who published "Big Man on Campus" in 1934 has turned to the college enviroment again as the background for a tender and beautiful novel, dealing with a highly emotional graduate student in a woman's college who had to use the museum and library of a neighboring male institution for her research. More fundamentally, however, Mr. Osten has faced squarely the problem which Leap Year presents to young women one time in every four years...