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Harassed History students have long gnashed their teeth at the utter impossibility of correlating material for their general and special examinations. Professors have clucked their tongues sympathetically and suggested more intensive tutorial work. But tinkering with the tutorial system is a poor palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half...
...rule bears an unfortunate resemblance to a mosquito. It is not a large animal, but after being irritated for a sufficient length of time, the tormented soul would cheerfully attack a lion with his bare hands to provide an outlet for his spleen. The rule, of course, works especial hardship upon the students rooming alone, but its nuisance value is appreciated even by men with several roommates...
Under the New Deal, the dollar has been devalued and a huge government deficit piled up. The stage has been set for an increase in the cost of living which will bring great hardship, especially to those whom Mr. Roosevelt professes to be most desirous of helping. Public and private debts contributed greatly to the severity of, the last depression. The new government debt, accumulated in part for the avowed purpose of preventing business depressions in the future, actually is likely to be a chief cause of the next economic collapse...
...should interfere with my opinion, but I hope Dr. Nielsen will find reason to reconsider her position on this question. ROBERT RIDGWAY Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Gertrude Nielsen, mother of three, warned against "the excessive use of analgesics" and deliveries "in an unconscious state," but never advocated such primitive hardship as witnessed by Reader Ridgway. -ED. Artful Armenian Sirs: While browsing among the pages of the May 18 issue of TIME ... to which I am a subscriber at the Compton (Calif.) junior college, I couldn't avoid running across the somewhat handsome faces of several robust blubbering behemoths...
...there be teams and coaches in as many sports as possible, Harvard would stand a better chance of producing more well-grounded healthy men. To the man who wants to spend all of his spare hours in Widener or Mallinckrodt the ten dollar levy would indubitably be a hardship; but the sacrifice of this small minority seems the least possible one for the good of the whole. Beef athletes are no more desired in predominance than brain athletes. Harvard points to the well rounded man, and a complete Athletic Association is an important factor in developing...