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In the past few generations, the usual attitude of college students has been that one cannot go into most branches of public service without soiling one's honor. Further objections are raised to the uncertain tenure, spoils system and inefficiency usually found in government offices. This attitude is partially responsible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV. HOUSE-CLEANING | 3/27/1935 | See Source »

A decade and a half ago the instructors of snobbish St. George's School were periodically awed by examination papers dashed off in blank verse by a student named Ogden Nash. Few years later Manhattan admen chortled over bits of doggerel, rhymed only by weird feats of spelling, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Nash, Rash | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Occasionally the pajamas are green instead of pink, but there are always pajamas and the woman is always blonde. Discontented New York wives shrink from the hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Full Dress | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

First move toward improving the conditions about which the commuters have complained was made last night when the Student Council appointed Eliot D. Canter '35 as an ex-officio member representing the Phillips Brooks House. The investigating committee of Phillips Brooks House, set up on Thursday to consider suggestions made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Officio Representation to Be Given P.B.H. by Student Council | 11/17/1934 | See Source »

Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: California Climax | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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