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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track, they found the surrounding area under martial law, the entrance bristling with machine guns, stands and stalls patrolled by 300 Rhode Island militiamen. Governor Quinn explained that despite the Supreme Court ruling Narragansett was not going to open, since the management had failed to file a list of track officials with the racing division on the specified date. Puzzled horsemen found Walter O'Hara still in his penthouse office, which he had reached by a military pass, were informed that Narragansett was going to open, advised to keep their horses on hand. To amuse the troopers...
...system, or the lack of system, now in force permits the professor to make up his own reading list, take as long as he wants in doing so, and finally, to report his selections, verbally or in writing to such book stores as he sees fit. This is not all. Constant pressure on the members of the Faculty over a period of years has resulted in a large number of them either giving their lists exclusively to the Harvard Cooperative Society or sending that firm advance notice of the books to be used in their courses. By this means...
...first of the William h. Bliss Prizes to be offered is one of $100 for the best examination covering Part One of the "Reading List in American History." Copies of this pamphlet, which were issued last spring by the committee, are available at the Publications Office...
Believing that "a course taken under compulsion" would not meet the need of offering a broad knowledge of the cultural history of the United States to undergraduates, President Conant appointed a committee headed by Howard M. Jones, professor of English, to prepare an extra-curricular reading list. This pamphlet has been widely hailed by the public with several thousand copies distributed...
Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...