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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only do they find training in Parliamentary practice, but every public question, both domestic and foreign, comes up for discussion in the meetings. "The Union is concerned with questions of broader public interest than merely wages and hours and working conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.F. of Leader Considers Liberal Education Necessary for Democracy | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...night, it would be possible to have afternoons free for sports and to arrange a more flexible schedule of study. Lack of funds has always been the answer to the suggestion of evening labs. But for a matter of such importance to many students, it should be possible to find the necessary funds. The costs of opening the laboratories three evenings per week for the heavier courses should not be prohibitive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHTS IN MALLINCKRODT | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...celebrities will find a raised stand, gaily decorated with bunting, carefully prepared for today's ceremonies. The grounds around have been cleared up; "we figured we'd have to do it sometime anyway," remarked the foreman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer To Lay Cornerstone For Graduate School | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

There is no primer of modern poetry. Readers who are intimidated by its obscurity soon find that most prose explanations tend to become almost as obscure as the poems, and generally duller. And they usually conclude, sometimes with a feeling that they may be missing something, but more often with a conviction that they are not, that contemporary poetry is a doubtful contribution to the world they know. John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body is not a primer of poetry, but it contains one of the clearest explanations of the obscurity of contemporary verse which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Poets | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

While the cards were on route, hostilities broke out and delivery was indefinitely delayed. Recently a shipment did arrive. Visualizing stacks of cards, the Yenching authorities opened the shipment only to find, much to their surprise, nine cases of canned cherries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY CARDS CHANGE INTO CHERRIES IN ASIA TURMOIL | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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