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...William James Lectures, already begun by the Philosophy and Psychology departments, head the second group. Similar are the lectures on modern music sponsored by the Music Department and numerous informal lectures, closed to the masses, on science, literature, current politics usually held in House common rooms. The latter, followed to advantage by meals in the dining halls, afford a great opportunity for knowing distinguished teachers outside the classroom...
...aggressive dictators, was respected by other countries, including Russia. The Spanish Republic did not become communist because it bought arms from communist Russia any more than the American colonies became royalist because they obtained aid from royalist France. To call the Spanish Loyalists "Reds" and "communists" is current fashion, but quite unjustifiable. In the bandying of prejudicial epithets, now in vogue, the Medical Bureau has been defined by a New England journal as "a bolshevist organization with headquarters in Moscow." Lest the credulous believe, let me, as national chairman of the Bureau, hasten to testify that it is an American...
...condemnation of the Cambridge City Council's current attack on Harvard would not only be adding to the plethora of frantic phrases already heaped on the incident, but would be providing additional fodder with which to keep alive in the press a biased and sensational publicity story so strongly tinged with politics and so little concerned with academic matters that it deserves the speediest possible interment...
...major investigations for the current year, the Student Council voted last night to conduct a survey of the athletic set-up at "Harvard" including a broad study of the nature and progress of sports as well as their place in the undergraduate life of the college...
...more concrete side of the current business picture, it appeared to the "spokesman" that the nation's shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...