Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be forthcoming, he makes no further inquiries, and the study card is turned in. Comes the Fall and the first weeks of lectures, and the student finds to his dismay that either the lectures or the material are not to his liking. Usually it is too late to correct the error, or there is no better alternative...
...Harvard professor or a Boston Barkeep, or whether he lives on Brattle Street, or in South Boston; but if he is not the cream in your coffee, I trust he will always be the clam in your chowder; for under his inspiration, if newspaper accounts are correct, your organization has just given a demonstration of a truth often forgotten in academic classrooms, namely, that there is a fundamental distinction between pacifism and peace. As a member of the Harvard Club of Washington, I feel sure that photographs of your Club, and of Mr. Mullins, if available, would be highly appreciated...
Rumors have been current throughout the year, and not without some foundation, that a large group of Sophomores who were shuttled out of their chosen House to correct the cross-section makeup, intended to leave the Houses and to secure lodgings outside. Much of the agitation came from Kirkland House which received more than its ordinary quota from the socially prominent men. Complaints during the previous year, that Kirkland House was a "social desert" together with the building of Bryant Hall during the summer resulted in the concentration of many outstanding men in the Class of 1937 there...
...forbidden eleven Radcliffe students to act in the Dramatic Club's "A Bride for the Unicorn", not because of any specific lines but because of the unsuitability of the parts. And this prohibition was issued after the cast had been tried and chosen, and presumably had a pretty correct conception of the characters to be portrayed. But in addition to this display of shrinking Puritanism on the part of Radcliffe, President Conant has found it necessary for the advisory board of the Dramatic Club at Harvard to decide whether the play shall be banned entirely...
...Service operatives and detailed budgets under which they work is never made public. The Secret Service maintains 36 local bureaus, whose heads must necessarily be accessible and known. It is estimated that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through...