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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Eliot continued this trend when he made specialization the keynote of Harvard teaching. In remedying the pitifully inadequate professional training offered by the graduate schools, he further emphasized the purely departmental character of the Divinity School. Taking as his motto "Divide and conquer", he succeeded in breaking down the curriculum into countless small fields, among which religious study held a place only equal, if not actually inferior, to all others...
...prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco...
Because of illness the noted missionary has been in "active retirement" for several years and, with the exception of talks last week in New York and Providence, he has made no appearances lately...
...with a big stick is loose in America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...
High point of the game was when the coeds faced the Harvard stands and, trucking to a trumpet solo, led a cheer, the volume of which far surpassed the noise made over the Harvard touchdowns...