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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Learning in a Democracy. What Mr. Hutchins proposed, said he, was "intellectual dictatorship." Lest anyone be misled by the Hutchins theories, Gideonse reported that in practice University of Chicago was being guided not by its president but by its faculty, was stressing "the understanding and enrichment of twentieth-century human life in all its phases...
...Physiography. The latter is also, and perhaps more closely, connected with Geology, Geology 1 being required for Geography 4a, the beginning course in Physiography. Geography 5b and 7b, the Physiography of North and South America respectively are considered better courses in Physiography from the point of view of the human geographer. Course 4a was criticized as being too technical for one in Systematic Geography which deals with its effect on humans. Bryan, who gives this course, is primarily an authority on glacial geology, outside of Physiography itself, and Geography concentrators find the course rather useless. The lack of a good...
Geography is prerequisite for all advanced courses in human or regional geography, and is well worth the time whether one is going on in those fields or not. The exercise which this field exerts on one's brain--one's reasoning ability rather than memory--is particuther courses in Regional Geography covers the courses in Regional Geography covers successfully and interestingly what it is supposed to. Whittlesey has a vast fund of knowledge, gives serious and well organized lectures. Kemp is amusing, widely experienced, and stimulating to individual thought...
...long as man has the passion to alter the perfectly balanced conditions of life which nature, through countless ages, has developed," Fernald warned, "the rare and retiring plant or animal has no more chance of survival than has the human fugitive aristocrat in the dictator-ruled countries which are so upsetting to lovers of human liberty...
...works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins or any other government official to express his views on political contests in a state of which he is a native, was strongly defended by President Roosevelt today. Striking out at newspaper and Congressional criticism that Hopkins sought to "play politics with human misery" when he stated his preferences for Rep. Otha D. Wearin, young New Dealer, to Son, Guy M. Gillette in Iowa's Democratic senatorial primary race, the Chief Executive described the agitation as a great deal of smoke...