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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French films offered periodically, should present no insurmountable barrier to this project. The educational advantages to be gained are too obvious for mention. But whether regarded from the purely cultural standpoint or looked upon merely as an opportunity for the undergraduate scholar to see and hear a difficult foreign tongue as spoken in its native habitat, the introduction of a series of well selected German films would serve a definite purpose in Cambridge. As it is not permitted to charge admission at the Geography Building, it might be possible at each performance to take up a collection to defray...
...public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...this year's all-important monetary developments, when even the leading metropolitan dailies have apparently forsaken the respectable tradition of impartiality in their news columns, to propagandize for what they choose to call a sound dollar. Of particular social value are your candid, intelligible, impartial discussions of this difficult subject, when so many we read are drivel and buncombe. Congratulations...
Although it is difficult to see how a staged rally such as this can have any serious results either in inspiring a football team which will be four miles away in Belmont at the time, or in permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...doubt as to the coming necessity of the bridge, or to the merits of the proposal as the ultimate in the development of this part of the river basin, the financing of the Cambridge share of this three quarter million project, at the present time, might be difficult. It was suggested that perhaps the bridge, which in itself comprised only slightly more than half the total cost of the plan, could be constructed first and the extensive developments of the river left until the return of better times...