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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beta Kappa was forced to recognize this last year when it launched its campaign for the defense of intellectual freedom. For it is not simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations to speak out boldly on current issues. The Crimson insists on viewing the curtailment of academic freedom at Chicago, Ohie, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell, not to hit nearer home, as isolated instances, but one does not have to be gifted with second sight to see these isolated cases of the curtailment of academic freedom as part...
Remaining lectures in a series being presented by the Law School Faculty concerning significant present-day tendencies, current problems, and other recent developments were announced yesterday, as follows...
...Reviewing the Polish Campaign in the current U. S. Infantry Journal, Lieut. Col. Hasso von Wedel of the German General Staff gave the total number of anti-tank guns captured with the Polish Army as 120. In any well-equipped modern army, each division has at least 70 antitank guns...
None of these projects, however, promises the U. S. self-sufficiency in tin. Phelps Dodge now produces only at the rate of 1,200 tons a year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs: 7-12,000 tons). In 1929, at their peak, Bolivian mines were able to produce ore equivalent to only 55% of U. S. tin needs. Main precaution against a tin famine remains the stockpile...
Explaining the action, Paul Olum '40, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, declared that the honor society's job was "the maintenance of intellectual standards," and linked the local chapter's action with the national organization's current drive for an "intellectual defence fund...