Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Censorship of the press has become a live issue on the Dartmouth campus this year, as University authorities there are moving to gain control of the "Dartmouth", Hanover undergraduate daily...
...challenge presented to you by the Williams of 1938 is whether you can live up to these educational opportunities. It is indeed a grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want...
...calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...
Chairman Hochman believes that labor unions owe to their members education and fun as well as higher wages, that "man does not live by bread alone." Mr. Hochman and the union's able educational director, British-born Mark Starr, think that a worker is not fully educated in high school or college. Purpose of their workers' education program: to remove "prejudices" acquired in public schools, fill gaps, give workers "realistic" attitudes toward labor, teach them how a union works...
...earth on the New York World's Fair site, not to be opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need it no longer." Whalen: "We were thinking of you in the World of Tomorrow...