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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief). He ticked off recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization but breed disease. . . ." Tenancy- "I do not suggest that every farm family has the capacity to earn a satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers-indeed most of them-with some...
Aghast at the whole affair, President Anton J. Carlson of the American Association of University Professors, a University of Chicago physiologist who was on hand as A.A.U.P. s unofficial witness, exploded: "I have not hoped to live to see this kind of meeting. . . . The important thing is not Dr. Frank but the statement by Mr. Wilkie that governors always have insisted upon having a hand in the selection of presidents of State universities. ... I could imagine such a thing happening only in the early days of the Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here...
Although Harvard's minor sports could continue to live on their small pittance for perhaps another year, they can not do so without losing much of their value to the undergraduates through poorer coaching and fewer opportunities to practise. If these sports were taken off their present inter-collegiate basis and made into intra-mural recreation, then the present budget would be sufficient, although not as large as it should be. No matter what course is adopted, funds are still needed, and must be raised sooner or later...
Alastair avenged his friend's murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...
These assume a residence in your House or Club in Cambridge. We will begin with your arrival from New York--where you live, or where you have frittered away the last night of the Christmas recess on your way back from Atlanta--Oak Park-Kalamazoo-Denver. You are in your room and you are unpacking your bags. You see a book entitled "Integral Functions of the Complex Variable"--or, "The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth Century Poetry". A pang of scholastic remorse seizes you. Will you begin here and now to study it? Not if the Vagabond's well-considered...