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...President is, appropriately, the Crescendo of Poissonality. He has the most finished technique. You would hardly know it was a technique, but for the occasional revealing split second. Opinions may differ as to the secondary qualities required in a President of the United States, but undoubtedly the first is Poissonality. Such Poissonality, swollen by its own success, has its dangers. Let us hope Roosevelt will not fall for it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lowdowns | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Whether or not," Dr. Gregory concluded, "the self-named Homo sapiens will listen to the small voice of comparative anatomy and paleontology, the facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rider, however much they differ in details, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type. . . . This elementary but far-reaching fact, which was well understood by Buffon, Lamarck, Darwin and all later evolutionists, is to this day ignored by the vast majority of mankind, including the writers of many textbooks on human anatomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants in Chicago | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must be trod on before screams will issue forth from the student body. In many respects it is in the tendency to mind their own business and not concern themselves with the affairs of others that Harvard men differ from the average run of college students in America, but it is a tendency more of inertia than of the interest in life that college should engender. But just as long as the spirit of academic freedom pervades the Yard, the traditional indifference seems an inevitable part of the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

There are encouraging signs that the new program will differ from the N.R.A. in being less arbitrary and more in line with traditional principles of careful consideration and democratic administration. The proposals already made by members of Major Berry's Council provide for an administrative tribunal, similar to the existing Federal Trade Commission, in place of the haphazard and ill-considered promulgation of codes under the reign of General Johnson. Most of the objections to the N.R.A. came not because of the provisions for minimum wages and maximum hours but because of the intolerable state of affairs brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON OUR WAY | 11/10/1936 | See Source »

...furnish the opportunity for men interested in photography to develop and print their own pictures has led to the organization of The Harvard Photographic Club which will have its first meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room. The structure of this club will differ considerably from that of the previous ones, as it intends to own its equipment and to be a permanent organization. Eliot House, which has a darkroom near the grill in its basement, is permitting the club the use of it. It is planned to purchase two enlargers, chemicals, and other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

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