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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams in caps. Singularly difficult to read them that way. I can't "sense" the meaning; have to spell...
...rendered powerless to touch the problem of hours and wages, the States were equally helpless; and that it pleased the 'personal economic predilections' of a majority of the Court that we live in a nation where there is no legal power anywhere to deal with its most difficult practical problems-a no man's land of final futility...
...conferences between the President of the Council and the Inter-House Committee which the President is to help call into being each fall. Although much can be said for this point of view, since the present system has worked moderately well and any change can always be viewed as difficult and of questionable value, the Council has erred. One of the six plans suggested at the last meeting could have been adapted to give the Council the same degree of University representation that it now has, and, at the same time utilize the Houses as local units through which...
Looking through the papers on file in Widener thirty years from now, it would be difficult to explain why the Congress acted as it did on the World Court question three years ago . . . . an issue which died obediently at Mr. Hearst's command. Although his opinions and his form of journalism may be much clap-trap, it is an undeniable fact that they help mold public opinion. The record of the times, if it is to be true and impartial, must include the good and the bad. The Hearst press deserves a representative...
...Yardlings will find it difficult to equal the record of last year's Freshman nine with twenty victories and one tie out of twenty-one starts to its credit. The Freshmen are lacking in good pitching material and first rate infielders, but are strong in catching talent. Little can be ascertained concerning the prowess of outfielders until the team gets outdoors...