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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the Crimson and the Blue have defeated Princeton in the only contest upon which comparison may be made. Yale won in a very close match by the score of six to one, while the Tiger proved an easy victim for Coach Harry E. Cowles' men, falling by the score of seven to nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 2/15/1936 | See Source »

...years ago in the solecisms of the Lower East Side. Not once did he mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt, but every long word that he twisted his raucous tongue around, every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde Park. He made no attempt to grapple with the New Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Warrior to War | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that "if you are a man you must be ready to fight every other man and to make love to every pretty woman,'' Rose finds Oliver stiff, deliberate, chilling, the victim of a moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front, is killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosophic Footballer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...most eloquent prose that Santayana has written. Yet critics are likely to disagree for a long time to come over the question of whether The Last Puritan deserves to be reckoned with great U. S. fiction, whether it should even be considered a novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosophic Footballer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...which last week read him out, and his late government rested largely upon its support. It is a matter of common knowledge that the Radical Socialist party is less "Radical" than the Socialist, and the term "further on the conservative side" as used in the Crimson was mere editorial comparison. As for "Gallic tastes", Laval's disregard for the League of Nations has been notorious, and as long as he remained Premier his conduct must be taken as representative of a majority of Frenchmen. Whether or not it would have been easy to dissolve the "league" is a debateable question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

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