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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the evenings of the past month there have gathered at the "Crimson" building meetings of concentrators in the various fields of concentration in the college. These men, chosen at random from the first five groups of the rank list, have discussed the courses, professors, tutors, section men and the methods of instruction that they have been exposed to at Harvard...
...humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must" legislation...
...Canada has signed a reciprocal trade treaty with the U. S. and Secretary Hull has been pressing Stanley Baldwin with requests for a reciprocal treaty with Great Britain, a maneuver which would drive a disrupting wedge into Ottawa's "Buy Empire" philosophy. Also on Secretary Hull's list are Australia, whose unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. has lately been relieved by increased sales of wool, and South Africa, whose recent boom was largely financed by the U. S. Treasury's gold-buying policy. These, however, were matters for private rather than public haggling...
Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, and chairman of the national committee of the Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy, heads the list of Faculty men behind the local branch. Hume Dow '38 and Laurence S. Levy '39, are temporary student chairman and assistant chairman respectively...