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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ADDING to the ever growing wave of criticism against the encumbent administration, Mr. Neilson, writing from the viewpoint of a Single Taxer, scores the theories advanced by Tugwell, Chase, and Soule. He writes straightforwardly and at times amusingly. It is difficult to agree with his main thesis but many of his observations are keen and his attacks spirited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/21/1934 | See Source »

...Edward Metley, Jr. '36, and Philo F. Willetts '36, to fill the shoes of the veteran forward nucleus composed of Captain Stork, Delavane C. Close and Melvin G. Grover, which has functioned to perfection in the contests of the past three years. In the goal there will be another difficult problem created by the graduation of Jonathan S. England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORMAN WILL CAPTAIN 1935 VARSITY SOCCER | 12/20/1934 | See Source »

Such a choice is lamentable and if carried out will ultimately fail to solve the problem and probably complicate an already difficult task of providing commuters with a satisfactory center for social inter-course and a common meeting ground. The gymnasium is a dreary dilapidated building and designed for athletic purposes. The cost of renovating it would be no small sum. Even if a large majority of the commuters were willing to contribute ten dollars each for that purpose it is unlikely that a large enough amount could be collected to make the necessary alterations. That some arrangements for commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY'S PROBLEM | 12/18/1934 | See Source »

Sirs: . . . Harry Hopkins, U. S. Relief Administrator, by all means. For 19 months, he has had the most difficult, thankless, and yet the most important job in the U. S.?barring no one?that of feeding about 20 million U. S. men, women, children?and he's done a damn swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

Philadelphia midwives are forbidden to use instruments to deliver babies. They must call a doctor when labor is difficult. Discounting those rules and averring that he did not prefer midwives to doctors, Dr. Nicholson chided obstetricians thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patient Midwives | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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