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...resurrection of the "Harvard Monthly" and the founding of the more specialized "Harvard Guardian" suggest a thorough examination of college publishing by undergraduates of a literary turn of mind. Backers of the vested interests along; Mount Auburn Street are most vitally affected, for the periodical trade will feel the keen edge of competition. Founders of the two new magazines would deny that their publications are competitive in intent or effect, and would emphasize the necessity of rounding out the picture of student activity. Yet competitive they are, since the potential reading public remains relatively stable and its budget for publications...
Ward's board chairman is Frank Hawley Ward (grandson), who has a keen eye for fossils, seldom sees one whose name and habitat he does not know. President Gamble, onetime Cornell zoologist, got commercial experience in a Chicago biological supply house. The staff numbers 35 employes of whom nine are women...
...speakers tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those mournful laments on lost love that are the stock...
...encouraged to improve their minds and bodies in an atmosphere of social cleanliness cannot be exaggerated. It is one of the few forms of practical training that college life can offer. In social work a man tests his power of leadership, his ability to pit his ideas against keen, youthful opposition, and his skill in solving complex problems. It is valuable self-education, broadening an individual's social knowledge and directing his thinking into channels unrelated to himself...
...Keen, mellow and eminent among Federal jurists is 70-year-old Julian William Mack, who sits on the U. S. Circuit Court in New York. A realistic Zionist, Judge Mack overcame his detestation of titular honors last summer to accept honorary presidency of the First World Jewish Congress in Geneva. Devoted to the sanity of the law, he has shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent...