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...Debating Council, Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and William W. Hancock '38 spoke, while Erwin Farley and Louis Sandine argued for the far-western college. There were no rebuttals in the debate, which lasted one hour...
Representing the Council will be Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and William W. Hancock '38 who are to uphold the negative of the question: "Resolved, That Congress should be empowered to regulate minimum wages and maximum hours for industry...
...because, on a backwoods road near Treadway. Tenn., a hillbilly parson named Walter Lamb had joined in wedlock Hillbilly Charlie Johns, 22, and Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8). Newshawks sought out Parson Lamb, a husky, red-headed Baptist living with his wife in a two-room cabin in Hancock County, only county in Tennessee which has no telephones, no telegraph, not a foot of paved highway. Said Preacher Lamb, who for some years has lived only a mile away from the Winstead family: "I didn't know she was so young. Nine's a little early. Anyway...
...west. This section, now supplying 281 of the 948 Yardlings, has increased its representation 300 per cent since 1933. With New England losing 15 per cent, the geographical spread of the class of '40 does not resemble the distribution of the American people in the days when Adams and Hancock raised havoc on the Common...
...activities make fascinating reading. But these are by no means all he will find delightful. There are accounts of the political manipulations (some successful, some not so successful) which figured in Harvard's early struggles to survive. (We might mention among the less successful deals that which made John Hancock Treasurer of Harvard College, which responsible post the great signer filled to perfection except that he completely failed to render any account of his transactions.) There are great mines of valuable information on the development and perpetuation of the liberal tradition at Harvard, opposed at the beginning by Increase Mather...