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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweepers. Wooden ships returned to their own. A "splinter fleet" of fishing smacks from ports like Grimsby and Hull was equipped with extra-heavy bottom-trawling nets, or with heavy chains to drag between them well astern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Granville Hicks, noted author and critic, will give a free, public lecture in the Union on January 15, it was announced today by the Committee for the Extra-Curricular Study of American History, which is sponsoring the address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks to Speak in Union | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...inviting Granville Hicks '23 to come to Harvard as its guest speaker, the American Civilization Plan has delivered the most forthright possible answer to the editors of "Social Justice". That magazine in its latest issue flays President Conant for approving an extra-curricular book-list which, it alleges, "bootlegs Communism into Harvard by the backdoor." Although the writings of Mr. Hicks are specifically cited in the article as illegal liquor, the Civilization Plan has gone the whole hog by asking the scholarly radical to lecture here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT TRADITION | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...Paris chuffed last week a special train crammed with statesmen and ambassadors. Speeding through the "Chateau Country" it rolled down the beauteous Valley of the Loire on an extra-special mission. Aboard were nearly all members of the new expatriate "Government of Poland" recently set up at Paris (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Warsaw to Angers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...present ruling is founded on a false principle. It assumes that a man taking courses in a subject remotely connected with his own field of concentration will automatically correlate the two fields. In a majority of cases this is impossible without the extra impetus of tutorial, examinations, or written papers combining both subjects. Without such assistance he is very apt to consider the courses merely as two completely unrelated entities. Evidently the division thinks it has solved the problem of correlation by making sure that a concentrator understands one of two particular methods outside his field. Actually he is only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRELATION CONFUSION | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

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