Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon President Conant's Faculty Council will meet to discuss one of its first important problems. The question of Concentration and Distribution of courses has long been considered by many in desperate need of a better solution than that which now exists. A faculty committee, appointed some time ago, has investigated the question and is to present the Council with some proposed changes...
Divorced. Michael Farmer, 31, Irish sportsman; by Film Actress Gloria Swanson, 33; in Los Angeles. Grounds: he was quarrelsome, abusive at the mention of U. S. politics; when she tried to discuss a radio speech of President Roosevelt he told her "she didn't know anything about politics and wasn't good at anything else." He was Miss Swanson's fourth husband, father of a two-year-old daughter, Michele Bridget...
...Thursday to consider suggestions made by the discontented non-residents, and to relay these with its own recommendations to University officials, looked upon this as a step toward the immediate improvement of the non-resident's situation. Phillips Brooks House men will, however, hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the matter further...
...Harvard Debating Council has refused to discuss over a transatlantic network a subject suitable only for a minor English A theme. Since both teams desire the same side of the censorship question, it remains to suggest a better theme. "Resolved: that the United States and Great Britain should immediately act to stabilize the dollar and pound sterling" is eminently debatable, of great public interest and important enough to merit the serious attention of the representatives of two great universities. Indications are that the debate will not take place unless some such vital question is discussed...
Among the best stories in the collection are "Sunstroke", a tale of how a man's momentary passion develops into an unrealizable love. "A Night At Sea", the meeting of two men who loved the same woman and the unexpected unemotional calm with which they discuss their life with her, and "A Simple Peasant", delineation of the jealous love of a simple peasant for the maid-servant and mistress of his master...