Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refreshing to be in a country, where there is no danger of being bombed--except from Mars" was what the Very Reverend Walter R. Matthews had to say about America in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. Reverend Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's, London, is at Harvard this week delivering a series of theological lectures on the William Beldon Noble Foundation...
...blight of any educational institution is the widespread prevalence of dull, factual examination questions demanding little but an air-ting memory. Veering away from such a danger, two recent trends at Harvard have approached the problem from different directions, both pointing toward a more successful criterion than factual memory. The value of the first trend, substitution of more general exam questions attacking a broad subject from a particular angle, has been recognized by practically every department, even in the most technical sciences. On the other hand, the second trend, the use of essays, papers and short theses in place...
Last week Kamâl Atatürk, having long suffered from a hard, dissolute, energetic life, had again fooled the doctors who have often warned him that nights spent in bars, cheap night clubs and bordellos would mean death. He was said to be out of danger, and the celebration became more a tribute to Turkey's first and, so far, only President than to the Republic itself...
Worried well-wishers heard that one member of the Stuart clan was at a country dance when rivals appeared, got his gun and danced the rest of the night without turning his back on the crowd. They believed Jesse to be in imminent danger. But they principally feared the pugnacious Stuart inheritance, which may wreck the career of one of the most promising young U. S. poets...
Browder, speaking last on the program, roused the audience to wild enthusiasm when he bitterly denounced the Munich Pact as "Not peace, but the New World War." Linking Herbert Hoover and Leverett Saltonstall with Hitler, he warned the audience of the danger of Fascist penetration into Latin America and urged all to cooperate with the Communist Party to save Democracy...