Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English A-2 is not, as many suppose, the course in composition taken by students who fail to satisfy the instructors of English A-1. Rather it is a convenient and pleasurable course in writing which may be taken as a full course or as a half course in either half year. It is convenient in that, similar to most of its kind in Harvard, it requires a thousand words a week, which, in view of the fact that there are no exams, is a very reasonable amount; and pleasurable in that it is conducted in a leisurely, efficient manner...
...campaign be disputed the Hoover theme-song that the Depression was "world-wide," Franklin Roosevelt, as President, knows as well as any man that there can be no general economic recovery without the concerted action of all nations. He also knows that the World Conference at London would fail dismally if "opened cold" without preliminary negotiations. He believes in the efficacy of personal contact. He likes to be his own negotiator. And he has been saying for months: "If only MacDonald and I could sit down together...
...Many a woman, taught to drink by Prohibition, last week hooked a French heel over a brass rail. Tower Magazines, Inc. distributors of mass periodicals through Woolworth Stores, asked its middleclass, female readership if they would serve beer at home. "Yes" answered 76%. * States which Drys believe will fail to ratify the 21st Amendment: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah...
...incapacity. Too many people detest the actions of the present German Government; too many agencies are working and will continue to work to spread the truth about it, for the prohibition of this paper or that to do any injury except to the German Government itself. No one will fail to understand...
...December meeting, the undergraduates of the society expressed dissatisfaction with the present system of elections. This was caused by the fact that many members elected in the Junior year and early in the Senior year fail to get high honors at the end of the college term. As a result, a committee was appointed by G. H. Chase, president of the society, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...