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...that the Harvard-Yale meet is over and done with to the satisfaction of everyone around here, thoughts turn for a moment and linger hopefully on the prospects of the Crimson in the coming I.C.4A track and field meet to be held in Philadelphia this Friday and Saturday...
...where songs are published and songwriters remembered, little is known of the men who wrote the homely old tunes which today are almost U.S. folksongs. Last week Douglas Gilbert of the enterprising New York World-Telegram traced the fortunes of some oldtime songwriters in a series called "Songs That Linger On- Who Wrote Them?" Four songs and their composers...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...
...fibers of his mind as in the case of the very late Victoria, that nothing but temperament remains. Admittedly this is not the romantic, or popular, view. The contemporary offshoots of Houston Stewart Chamberlain like to conjure him up as a natural Nazi, a nationalist and illiberal to the linger tips, an exponent of all the fireeating nonsense conventionally associated with the Prussian landholder and thus addicted to patting Herr Hitler on the head with many a foxy benison...
...scarcely touched Education. Last month Commissioner Zook went up to New York, told a Teachers College conference not to expect Federal funds for teachers' salaries (TIME, Aug. 14). Recently he wrote in the Washington Star: "The Depression hit schools later than it did the business community. It will linger with schools longer than with business and trade. This year, therefore, will probably be the most difficult year of the Depression as far as schools are concerned." Though many a conference has voted to urge Federal aid-notably one at Teachers College which went so far as to advocate...