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...York Times Current Events Examination will be held on Friday in Room N in the Widener Library at 2 o'clock. The examination is open to all undergraduates in Harvard College and no previous registration is required. This year there will be two parts to the examination. There will be one question on a general subject, and also an essay question on special topics. It is a test of the student's knowledge of facts and his understanding of political, social, and economical problems. Prizes of $500, $150, $75, and $25 will be awarded to the successful contestants...
Aside from the happy freshness of such a belief, there is savor in comparison of Mr. Benn's convictions with those of Baron Acton, who, according to the current Commonweal, seventy-five years ago wrote in his diary of the Harvard curriculum...
...adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership in the light of psychiatry and psychology: a psychologist is going to England and the Continent to study current work in the psychology of industry with particular reference to industrial morale...
When John D. Ryan's father migrated from Ireland in 1847, two years after the great "potato" famine there, the belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper...
...sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality of universality...