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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congressman from this district), judge pro tem., was that one James Brown had taken his horse to Royston's blacksmith shop to have it shod. It was limping badly, having been without shoes for a year. The horse kept lying down, making the shoeing difficult. He tried a "twitch" on it. but this failed to work. Then following what he said had been the advice of experts, he took hold of the horse's tongue and was told to hang on to it until the blacksmith completed putting the shoes on the horse...
...House Plan and the tutorial system have reached a stage in their existence where any further treatment is a matter of small refinements and revision of detail. To a large extent, the new President's work will consist of just such minor adjustments; to him has descended the difficult task of rounding off the edges, and of reconciling the conflicts presented by the many innovations which have been implanted in the University in the last fifty years. This task is no less important than the creation of new institutions, and its outcome will be no less important for the University...
...respects of which Dr. Phelps speaks. College education has become too practical to isolate it from the affairs of the world; and especially is this the case where college Professors desert their class-rooms, almost while lectures are in progress, to tackle the practical and very difficult problems of economics and finance and social relations. The college is now an integral part of the machinery for doing the work of the world, and as such it can no longer be simply a house by the side of the road, but must be the recipient of all the little impulses travelling...
...administration had found it increasingly difficult to keep members of the Board of Preachers at home over the week ends, and most of the visiting preachers were unable to keep office hours after the day on which they delivered the sermon. There was also felt the need of a pastor with whom students could consult on any religious problems that might arise. Recently there has been close cooperation between the office of the Adviser on Religion and the pastors in charge of young people's work in the churches that are attended by Harvard...
...seniors will be able to find self supporting positions, while at the same time the means of many of those future unemployed are so depleted that they can not support themselves without jobs. They must either go on with their education, a course already made difficult for them by the University's failure, however unavoidable, to cooperate in the emergency by providing free post-graduate courses and college privileges, or they must go out to swell the ranks of the Nation's jobless. The essay contest suggests the possibility that under the stimulus of reward in a tangible from some...