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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...this is ''artistic license"-which is not the license to keep a studio-harem, but the right of any artist to use his tools and materials in any way he pleases to achieve the effect he wants. . . . JOHN WILLIAM SHAW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...announcement last night that the Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House has accepted the constitution prepared by a special committee climaxes the swift, continuous series of growing pains enjoyed by the House in the past three years. The effect of this growth can be noticed in such phases of P. B. U. work as the Social Service Committee, which this fall has sent an amazing number of student volunteers to the scattered settlement houses of Greater Boston, and also in the Personnel Adviser. Now the development and concentration of all phases has been accomplished by the drawing up of a constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE BUILDING | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...from Yale on the gridiron. Football here was at a low ebb, both with regard to achievement and morale. Then, if never before, voices from all sides insisted that with the new commercialization in college competition Harvard could not win unless some modification of the "student first" rule took effect. Perhaps not proselytism in all the materialism of the term, but some arrangement to make it easier for stars to come here. On November 26 the Crimson joined others in expressing this view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR AND PRAISE | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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