Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since war broke out, Aristide Briand's dream has walked again. When the first Allied shot was fired, many thoughtful Britons began worrying less about what war would be like than about what possible peace could follow it. Many a Briton did not expect young men going to the front to refrain from asking: What are we fighting for? Can we have something better this time than another Versailles and another...
...there is now a war in Europe; that we too are threatened with involvement; that we have but one safeguard in such time of crisis--namely our freedom to hear whom we will, on what we will? Only in this way can the vital decisions which must be made follow from a considered survey of all the issues involved. To deny this is to deny the very basis on which such an educational institution as Harvard University exists. Paul Olum...
...shock. In tampering with Thanksgiving--which involves freedom to worship without restriction--Massachusetts is weakening the traditions which the Pilgrims fought to establish. Outside of the Women's Republican Club, a November twenty-third holiday is a national sentiment. Mr. Saltonstall is presuming to tell the Commonwealth it cannot follow its own desires...
...change is probably not great enough to warrant the prediction, not an uncommon one now, that a period of romanticism will follow very shortly. It seems logical that a reaction should come after such a drastic trimming down of musical style as we saw in many composers after the War, but if the present classical sentiment persists, it should be enough in itself to hold within bounds a tendency toward the looseness and freedom of real romanticism...
...chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs committee, speaking in the Kirkland House common room at 7:30 o'clock, will hold a question period afterwards, and election of a permanent A. I. L. executive committee and adoption of a nationwide program will follow...