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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down the watertight screw, and turned his back. He had done his duty, had locked 26 men in the flooded compartments. One of them was Sherman Shirley, who was to have been married the next Sunday, with Maness as best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...above lyrics from the newly-released Billie Holiday (Commodore Music Shop) of "Strang Fruit" are part of one of the most amazing mood records ever cut. Miss Holiday's singing, done in a bitterly poignant manner, makes even sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...before in Boston. Count did, and unbeknownst to the band, the rendition was recorded on a 16-inch master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears that a be-spectacled clarinet player is going to start recording for them shortly . . . Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz artists last week in an effort to label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...regard to the quality of Harvard teaching, the editorial states, "Harvard teachers--brilliant as they may be in research, letter writing, New Deal committee work, etc.--just don't seem to know much about teaching. Bliss Perry taught at Harvard; but few men have done so since then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Threatens Harvard 'Freedom' | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Under the new requirements all third-year students must complete written work embodying the results of individual research. This work may be done in connection with seminar study by students in groups not exceeding twenty-five or may be done in some particular subject under the supervision of an assigned instructor. To make seminar study available for all third-year students, new seminars have been added to the curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS TO HAVE MORE SEMINARS | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

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