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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureaucratic entanglements. The power, and sometimes the willingness, is lacking, to cut these knots. There is a strong tendency for a minor dean to indulge in the game of passing the buck, and, instead of dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect or disrespect in which the undergraduates hold him, it might be well to give the lesser officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE NOT SO DIZZY DEANS | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...from, which story would a shrewd cinema producer pick to coincide with the coronation of a King of England? This was one problem which last year faced Warner Brothers' Associate Executive in Charge of Production Hal Wallis. For a cinema producer, problems never come singly. Another and more difficult riddle for Producer Wallis was this: what were the best roles in which to cast two 12-year-old identical twins who looked so much alike that their mother could scarcely tell them apart? One test of a cinema producer is his ability to solve two problems at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mauch Twins & Mark Twain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Soldier and the Lady" brings to the screen Jules Verne's great novel, "Michael Strogoff." Akim Tamiroff as the sinister and ambitious Ogareff, Anton Walbrook as Strogoff, and Elizabeth Allen as Nadia carry difficult parts with the utmost conviction. The story of the rebellion against the Czar by Ogareff and Strogoff's efforts to frustrate it is well known to lovers of Jules Verne. The program at the University for the balance of the week is one of the best to appear there for many moons since both features rival in excellence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE UNIVERSITY | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

Rand--Excellent lecturer in a difficult subject to teach. Very helpful when approached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

Biology 1 requires a god deal of drawing ability, but well coordinated laboratory work with remarkable lectures from Professor Weston and pretty good ones from Professor Wetmore make the course eminently desirable, for any further work in botany though fairly difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

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