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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Reed referred to the undergraduate enterprise as the best way the college undergraduate can keep himself in touch with current topics of national importance." He stressed the significance of obtaining this information concerning politics, economics and foreign affairs in "a first-hand manner," rather than "through textbooks and periodicals which are often out of date before reaching the hands of the public...
...Printed discussion lacks efficiency in consideration of national problems," pointed out the Supreme Court member, "and a conference of this kind offers a true medium between academic knowledge and the actual workings of government and business. When you are dealing with a subject or current discussion and strategy, the subject is most clearly understood by association with those personalities who are framing the situation and centre the real background, rather than a mere reference to a myriad of cut-and-dried facts...
...Cannibal Carnival" was written by a London taxi driver, Herbert Hodges A farce on current events in the political and social world, the play is notable for its leftist leaning in addition to considerable frankness. The Faculty advisory committee to the Dramatic Club were favorably impressed by the play when submitted to them. Harvard Dean's office also expressed its approval...
...approach to the problem of physics. The Mechanical Explanation of nature occupies the opening chapters, and how it was devised by Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and others to account for phenomena as they saw them. Next is detailed the new facts about light and magnetics, and its replacement by the current theories of four dimensions, quanta, relativity, and the time-space continuum. Each problem is outlined as it arises in a logical approach, and each theory gets its day in court, with the difficulties that led to its formation, the events it explains, and the new difficulties that lead...
Students new on the Waiting List for the current year must file new applications for the year...