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Monday evening will see the Adams House actors in a spicy after-dinner satire, written principally by G. Raymond Dennett '36 and Gladwin A. Hill '36. The play contains a takeoff on the House and tutorial plan, a student and biddy scene, and even President Conant will be impersonated on the boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/13/1934 | See Source »

...deliberate a falsification of the recent remarks made by Dr. Dennett of Williams (for it obvious that it is to him that Hopkins refers) becomes all the more apparent when we examine what Dennett actually said. It was his contention that in times of economic depression, colleges should restrict their budgets to accord with their restricted incomes. This does not mean--and unless Mr. Hopkins is an imbecile, he knows it--that "education is for the privileged free who have money." It simply means that Williams College is not going to be an instrument for the carrying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glled Aristocracy | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...step to better the situation. But alloting stipends such as the Emergency Relief Administration maximum of $20 a month is only to prolong the misery. Nothing short of an economic revolution can provide everyone with funds sufficient for proper utilization of academic opportunity. Until then, the affirmation of President Dennett of Williams deserves attention: "What appears to be needed is not more college graduates, but fewer and better ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERFERA | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...small, aristocratic Williams, new President Tyler Dennett made his first big news in office by accompanying his refusal of aid with a thoroughgoing attack on the whole program. His arguments were the standard ones against government relief in any form: 1) It helps the unfit to survive. ''What appears to be needed is not more college graduates but fewer and better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Cuts | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...letter is signed by Eugene D. Bronstein 1G, Boone Schirmer '37, Albert Sprague Coolidge, Raymond Dennett '36, and Victor H. Kramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Letter Requests Conant To Ask Court to Free Rioters | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

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