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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bottom of first column: '"Apparently it does not matter whether a couple is old or young to have intelligent offspring." This is gibberish. I assume what you mean is: "Intelligence of offspring appears to be independent of the age of the parents...
...like to see questions fought to a finish in your Letters column. You seem to have most minute information concerning the daily habits of Gandhi. In your own reply to Mr. Beals in the Feb. 1 issue, you describe how St. Gandhi cleans his teeth with a dantan. Perhaps he does, but if so he must hold them in his hand for tin-cleaning process. That is if Sherwood Eddy is the accurate observer that I judge him to be. For Mr. Eddy in his recent book The Challenge of the East writes as follows: ''We remember...
Sirs: My father, the late Daniel E. Hervey, worked on the editorial staff of several New York papers for years and one of his pet hobbies was writing a short column of "If you see it in the Sun it isn't always so." "If you see it in the Sun" was Dana's pet caption. I have inherited his hobby and recently took you to task when you called citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, something other than Caracanians. One of your editorial staff wiggled out of that one but this time I have you right. In TIME...
Editorial candidates will lay their offerings daily at 7 o'clock on the alter of the god of things as they should be, in the person of the "man in charge of the column." This competition involves familiarity with happenings in the University and in the world at large, and gives the successful competitor a better organization of opinions and a firmer command of English
...best way in which to describe the editorial board is to consider how a column is run. The men on the board alternate in taking charge of it, usually writing one or two of the editorials themselves and criticizing those handed in by the candidate. During the evening some of the other editors will drop in and glance at the eds. In nine cases out of ten some argument as to a certain point in an editorial will ensue, resulting in either partial or entire revision. There is no place where frank criticism is more in evidence than the editorial...