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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrollment from the affected states, it will be a superhuman task to effect a balance of power between the cast and the west. Yet this is what must be done if Harvard is to beat provincialism. Mr. Conant has a hard task ahead of him, made even more difficult by the necessity of maintaining academic standards at the present level. But he must continue to develop the frontier and push it forward if Harvard is to be a national university...
...when he goes to address the Ohio Chamber of Commerce next month, it will not be to throw his battered hat in the ring, but to speak "only about Kansas." Speaking only about Kansas last week he said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly...
Others on the absentee list have been Bill Watt and Bob Jones. Both of these are also out of today's game. All told that makes quite an impressive score. It also makes Harlow's job about as difficult as is humanly possible. In fact if Harlow can produce a team which can stick close to the Crusaders for 60 minutes today he will be generally credited with having achieved the impossible. The chances are that the Purple will win by three touchdowns...
...Oriental Crab-Apples. It is difficult to write comprehensively about the oriental crabapples; there are so many of them and they are such a varied lot. In Asia the crab-apples behave in somewhat the same bewildering way as do the Hawthorues in this country; taken as a whole they form a complex assemblage, difficult to sort into such conventional pigconholes as species and varicitics. They probably hybridize in nature, they most certainly do in cultivation. Some are low shrubs, others are forest trees. Some bear fruits closely resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits...
Often Mother Advocate takes pleasure in extending the hospitality of the College to people of artistic and literary interests, pausing in Cambridge. The last guests to oblige with readings at Spring teas were Robert Frost and John Crowe Ransom. It is not even difficult to remember back to mid-winter when she felt very comfortable in the same room with Miss Gertrude Stein, and was vastly entertained...