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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Council has emphasized policy rather than action during the current year can best be shown by tracing its operations and examining the President's report. The argument, first, that the Council should not be the victim of commitments by its predecessor is well taken, for obviously a new Council may be unwilling to undertake an investigation left over from the previous year's program. Suggestions, not orders, are all that should be passed on. Together, the two reports by the Committee on Research were a startling expose of the double evil in Harvard of poor teaching...
With this frank assertion a girl who style herself "a co-ed" begins her article on "Chastity on the Campus" in the current American Mercury. "Our" point of view proceeds with the argument...
Having previously absorbed Current Opinion, the Digest last June was itself absorbed by Review of Reviews. After four months, it was again sold, but on February 24 it suspended publication. Purchase of the Digest by TIME, which will fulfill the 250,000 subscriptions now in the Digest's books, was consummated with George F. Havell, who last controlled it in behalf of a syndicate...
...filed last week against the Daily Worker, its editor, Clarence A. Hathaway, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, by Max Eastman, author (Enjoyment of Laughter) and lecturer, whose skillful translations of Trotsky's works have done much to keep Trotsky's ideas current in the English-speaking world. Author Eastman charged that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against tyranny and barbarism ought to> fight the American...
...other types of musicians impartially on their merits, still flock more eagerly to hear a fourth-rate foreign conductor than to hear a fairly well-equipped and conscientious native maestro. Boards of directors of U. S. symphony orchestras, sometimes influenced by socialite patronesses, usually demand colorful or famous personalities. Current in orchestral circles is the remark of a well-known pianist's wife:* "When a conductor in Europe has a love affair, the result usually is a child; in America an entire orchestra...