Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definite plans for the activities of the "Harvard Inquiry", undergraduate club organized to discuss the economic and political structure of the country in the light of the depression, were released last night by J. DeW. Norton '33, secretary pro. tem. Seventy students have already signed pledge-cards in those Houses which have been canvassed, and it is expected that this number will be considerably increased in the next few days. At the same time some progress has been made toward collecting the funds which will be needed to bring to Harvard leading authorities on economic questions...
...evening session will be held in Dunster House, where the dinner and smoker will take place. After a brief business meeting the members will hear C. N. Greenough '98, professor of English and master of the House discuss the House Plan as it stands after its first year. This will be followed by "Business Looks at the Unforseen", a talk by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the School. Tonight's programme will close with an address by an outstanding business man whose name will be announced at the time. The session in the Baker Library tomorrow morning will...
...exists to champion the civic virtues of free speech and academic freedom, to esponse unpopular causes, and to dramatize occasional controversial issues as they arise. The Inquiry, however, is being formed to investigate the political and economic conditions which call for change, to seek understanding rather than action, to discuss rather than demonstrate. It is true that there will be some resemblance in the program of the two groups, but this is more superficial than real. The Inquiry proposes to raise one question of general significance each year and to take it up from as many aspects as there...
Agitation for a Garner-for-President club has been set in motion by a group of undergraduates and will culminate in a meeting tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Winthrop C-51 to discuss plans...
...public inspection was adopted. This was brought about largely by a series of crusading dispatches by inquisitive United Pressman Raymond Clapper, whose digs and jabs made relative-hiring Congressmen blush. The average House member who pays his wife, son or daughter to clerk for him wrathfully refuses to discuss publicly the details of the arrangement. Newsmen had to puzzle out the House's payroll for April by themselves. They found: ¶ One hundred members with clerks of the same name, presumably wives, daughters, sons, brothers or sisters on the payroll. ¶ Six members (Ohio's Brand, Louisiana...