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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helps to emphasize the Union that undergraduates, whatever they may feel about most national issues are sincerely interested in the problems which have arisen in regard to prohibition. True, all such discussions must in the nature of the case be inconclusive, but no man who attends such gatherings can fail to come away without a deeper insight into the intricasies of the problem before them. Above all things, the need for concerted thought and action emerges clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISING THE WET BLANKET | 3/6/1930 | See Source »

Everyone knows hundreds of normal young men who fail to enter Vale, Harvard or Princeton otherwise manage their lives and their careers successfully without being classed as imbeciles. The Duke's case is no more unusual or worthy of note in a reliable paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Premier Duke | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...enclosing his picture. He has removed his Bessie-the-sewing-machines-girl spectacles, and in the flesh the hair is carroty-red and the freckles are many. You will not fail to take note of the elegant pompadour: the hair stands straight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O Wild West Wind | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

...regard to the purpose of his book. Professor Saunders made the following statement: "In most lecture courses in general the students, especially Freshmen who are not accustomed to taking lecture notes, fail to get a great deal out of the period. We hope this new book will serve more or less as a group of lecture notes and will enable the student to understand the subject better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. SAUNDERS WRITES TEXTBOOK FOR COURSE | 2/11/1930 | See Source »

...Chicago would not buy them. He blamed "reformers" and Chicago newspapers for the City's troubles. The city's newspapers long ago decided that the best way to get rid of the Mayor was to ignore him, have consistently done so through the present crisis. However they did not fail to print this message delivered last week by Mr. Strawn's committee of 76 and aimed directly at the Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Rat Hole | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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