Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, then, the prime fuction of the University is to teach its students. No other excuse for existence can possibly be arrived at. No matter how far-flung may be the empire of learning which the University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places...
...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
...Accept no favors from foreigners, no matter how innocent. Spies' first efforts in Russia are to insinuate themselves into Communist homes, later compromise their hosts...
...before the Orthodox rabbis who rule the largest segment of U. S. Jewry (the inconsiderable remainder, Reform Jews, divorce as they please). Last week at its 32nd annual convention in Atlantic City the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada said its final say on the matter. The Union voted overwhelmingly "not to recede one iota" from the Orthodox position on the status of the lorn agunah...
Family life of the most representative type is the subject matter of this book, and it is described with the most revealing tenderness flavored with frequent spurts of recognition of one's own childhood. The Sunday in November which is recorded hour by hour for us as the events slowly unreel is typical of any rainy Sunday when children are allowed to roam within the walls of the house. Bunny, who hated to be forced out of doors just because the sun was out, is allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond...