Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irwin Ross's leading article in the current number of the "Harvard Progressive" is one of greatest interest to the Harvard community. Discussing "The Strange Case of the Assistant Professors," he gives vigorous expression to a student view of the vital changes being wrought by the administrative appointment policy. This view, which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed...
...Paris turned to the Renaissance, resurrected for hats the snood worn by Beatrice d'Este. It caught on, and the Paris openings last month brought worse news to hairdressers. The simple snood-which caught back hair in a mesh bag-had been developed into what was called "back interest." The 1939 snood, balancing front-tipped hats, almost completely encased the hair in fabric-jersey, velvet, grosgrain-nullifying the hairdressers...
...Smith's outlook on music is sociological, stems from his interest in people, their customs and living conditions. In no slumming or night-out spirit did he shepherd his fellows to Harlem. He says of U. S. folk music: "It's the best thing we have. It's as American as chewing gum and Mark Twain, good and tawdry and proud...
...Signet Society's clubhouse. Featured speakers at Friday night's were Archibald MacLeish, now Librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington; Ralph M. Ingorsoll, former member of the staff of Time, Inc.; and Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who attended many of the dinners last year and showed considerable interest in the work of the Nieman Foundation...
...will finally be permitted to take the course will be chosen from those who meet the preliminary qualifications. They will be picked on the basis of "academic standing, interest in aviation and allied fields, maturity, and an interview," according to the official announcement...