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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall serve human interests!" he cried. "I shall serve also this French people from whom I have sprung and whom I have a good right to love with a particular affection. ... I wish to work," concluded Orator Herriot, "for the whole range of great human interests in this terribly difficult period...
Prevention. "The only possible cure of suicide is prevention," advises Dr. Fairbank. "A suicidal patient must never be left alone." One attempt at suicide or frequent talk of suicide is usually followed by suicidal effort. In hospitals the "plungers are especially difficult to take care...
...best work has been devoted to pure theory of a type which must ever remain a closed book to all but trained students. He may not inaptly be described as an economist's economist. As such, however, his value to the department here at Harvard is difficult to overrate. Harvard has, particularly among "the old guard", a very respectable number of scholars whose contribution to economics has been invaluable, and among the younger members of the department several whose work holds out promise of a brilliant future. But it is in no sense disparaging to say that there...
...although the desire, on the part of both H. A. A. officials and players, to have the team is still as great, the sport has already outlived its useful purpose. With seven House teams in the field it is difficult to find enough men interested in football to fill House, second University, and 150-pound teams. Moreover, with a rule forbidding minor sports teams to leave New England, Yale is the only collegiate opponent in the lightweight division. It was shown this last season that the Yale game objective was hardly compensation enough for an otherwise desultory series of games...
...spent at Red Top is as enjoyable as any in the college career, but this does not alter the fact that the Red Top training exaggerates the importance of crew as a sport and is out of place in a college. The force of tradition will make any change difficult; it should not, however, prevent a reduction in the length of the 1933 varsity race, making the sport more enjoyable and enabling the crews to remain in Cambridge until the close of the college year...