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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently there is a concerted movement to destroy military training in our colleges. Whether it has any connection or not we cannot say; but in the current Outlook there appears an article which seeks to undermine what are called "Little West Points." Fortunately, the American people look at these colleges in a different manner from the Outlook writer. They know the value of military training not only for the protection of the country against foreign and domestic enemies, but for the improvement of youthful physique and the development of habits of obedience and discipline. Instead of attacking the colleges which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: They're in the Army Now | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...permit one fourth of the time theoretically assigned to acquiring this back-ground to be spent in non-academic work is to destroy the balance between curricular and extra-curricular education. Military and Naval Science do not merit college credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LITTLE MARINE | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

...trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why-why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston Tea Party ..." jeered Mrs. Helen Robbins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Kelly, Baltimore. It permits elegant excision of cancer ramifications and delicate areas of the brain. It may permit operations of the spinal cord. But President-elect Allen Buckner Kanavel, Chicago, pointed out that coagulation caused by the cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Surgeons | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...relations end relationships." Dissatisfied with his Advertising Department, he suddenly promoted the Daily Mail hall porter, one Glover, to be its head. He defended his action in a remarkable memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with Mr. Glover . . . and was profoundly impressed by Glover's horror of advertisements that destroy the news columns and, I may add, by his remarkable chest measurement and reach. . . . He strips in the ring at 18 stone and has a reach longer than Dempsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scarecrow Napoleon | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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