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When the landscapist was laying out the football field in Princeton's Palmer Stadium in 1914. he decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Princeton Mile | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

This presents a grim picture of "planning". Necessarily, planning pre-supposen an intelligent attempt to forsee the future. Yet the AAA apparently had no student of rainfall, climate and sell conditions on its staff, and continued to carry on its program in a state of blissful unconsciousness. Even after crop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AAA TOTTERS | 3/23/1935 | See Source »

"Mr. X" is currently 15 different newshawks situated in strategic sections of the U. S. Every week each "X" writes Managing Editor Charles Colebaugh of Collier's a breezy, detailed memorandum on business, politics, public sentiment in his section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Confidences of Mr. X | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

But the problem is not with those businesses which now have profits, it is with those that are on the edge of the red or on the deficit side already. The only remedy suggested hereabouts is that so called marginal producers shall have some special immunity. Thus small businesses and...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/8/1934 | See Source »

With compelling logic, Dean Hanford rejects the proposal to restrict tutorial instruction to men of Dean's List standing, pointing out that one of the chief values of the tutorial method is its capacity for stimulating a spark of intellectual curiosity in minds which the course system would never have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN HANFORD AND THE FUTURE OF THE COLLEGE | 2/10/1934 | See Source »

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