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...student at an endowed university owes no service to the world. Humanistic learning, the pursuit of art and letters, he can then claim as his occupation in the social system. But in the present state of the world no matter what type of person he may be, he must enlist in a compulsory service for humanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skilled Business Men, Not Doles or Breadlines, Remedy for Crisis Says Carver--Workers Cannot Support Unemployed | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...organizations of the National Tuberculosis Association. The Association does not expect to realize the $18,000,000 which the stamps represent. But it does hope to surpass the $5,300,000 raised last year. The 2,084 local headquarters are utilizing the most insistent names they can enlist for their collection work. In the Manhattan district the name is Thomas William Lament; in Chicago, David Forgan; in St. Louis, John E. Edwards; in Boston, Dr. John B. Hawes II; in Cleve land, Dr. Robert Bishop; in San Francisco, William H. Crocker; in New Orleans, Dr. Chaille Jamison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Christmas Seals | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Every student in College wanted to enlist, but the faculty protested and the number was finally limited to 83. A few men from Norwich, Bowdoin, and Union were included. A great demonstration was accorded the cavalrymen as they left for White River Junction in carriages...

Author: By Robert Webb, | Title: Eighty-Two Hanoverian Horsemen Formed Cavalry To Take Part In Civil War--Faculty Offers Make-up Examinations | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

L.A.C.M. will emit publicity, maintain a fact-finding bureau, enlist the aid of prominent persons, help its constituent colleges raise money. It now has 235 member-colleges, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, with an average enrolment of 600, average assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Late School | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Publisher Jerome Dewitt Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard asked the A. P. to forbid the use of its bulletins both for direct broadcast and for such interpretive deliveries as that of Lowell Thomas for the Literary Digest. To make such a rule effective, it would be necessary to enlist both United Press and International News Service in a boycott. But some of the editors opined that such broadcasts, even by commercial advertisers, actually increase the circulation of their newspapers. Although he did not go so far, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune (which operates its own broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ink v. Air | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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