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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallach calls Montaigne 'the great skeptic.' A skeptic of any kind is bad enough. A great skeptic is the last person I would go to on a question of such great importance-my eternal salvation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney to Meet Wallach In Discussion | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...replying to Father Feeney, Wallach said, "On behalf of the Collegiate Montaigne Society, I am very pleased to accept Father Feeney's kind response to my invitation to discuss our variances on the critical topic of eternal salvation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney to Meet Wallach In Discussion | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with some chance of success is diminishing year by year. Year by year the big companies are consolidated in their competitive positions. No laws can change this situation so long as the amount and kind of our taxation makes it inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from Flander's Lectures | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...Woolworth's will have transformed itself completely into a medium-price variety chain. The company has already copied many merchandising frills from its tonier competitors. The Houston store will make free deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight-Million-Dollar Baby | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Obviously the kind of football towards which Harvard is being pushed--and it has come a long way on the road already--will contradict its educational aims. In the atmosphere of semi-professional football with its glorification of the Varsity, coaches fighting for survival, and intense competition, the player gains nothing from his participation in sports, that is, he gains nothing of legitimate value. Football, we say, has special conditions, special privileges; but we are not sufficiently sensitive to its professional attitude in football which is corrupting all other sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics and GE | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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