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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granville Hicks '23, well-known author and writer for the New Masses, a left-wing publication, has been appointed one of the seven American History extra-curricular counselors to be in the Houses next September, the CRIMSON learned from an authoritative source yesterday...

Author: By Ellsworth S. Grant, | Title: Granville Hicks, Communist Writer, Becomes American History Counselor | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...glossy, million-dollar exports Parliament knew quite well. But canny Britishers knew equally well that if Hollywood had to make between 75 and 150 quota pictures annually in the British Isles at a minimum cost of $75,000 each, it would undoubtedly find it good business to spend enough extra to insure a world-wide return on its investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced to spend the night on the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cellist | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Selection Committees should endeavor to return to a fairer balance between athletics, leadership, and scholastic ability. Qualities of leadership are best developed through frequent contact with one's fellow men and through extra-curricular life in a great university rather than through constant haunting of a library. While it is obvious that high intellectual ability is essential, the recent overemphasis on this qualification and the tendency to sacrifice the other qualities which Rhodes envisaged are unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW RHODES SCHOLAR | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

According to the police, the girls had openly approached students here, and, accusing them of attending parties at a Brighton apartment, had threatened exposure unless blackmail money was forthcoming. One of the girls had threatened to write college authorities if the students did not pay her "extra financial assistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS SUSPECTS AS VICE RECKET IS BARED | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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