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...Polish-Danzig relations are far from satisfactory. They present a picture of a chaotic maze of complaint, dispute and litigation that obscures the true meanings of these relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Again Flouted | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Freshman Halls. James and Persis Smith Halls, in the old days, were the freshman playgrounds and now, when no more Jubilants will trample the fugitive grass, they wear an air of faded youth. Outside the western gate runs the ceaseless traffic of Boylston Street and beyond it the dreary maze of the trolley car terminal. Kirkland, without the freshness of a new House, without the relief of the Charles to turn to, and with the hurly-burly of Cambridge at its back-door must establish its reputation in other ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: KIRKLAND HOUSE | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

...same romantic impression in a young man's mind as do the graceful chain of lakes that surround the University of Wisconsin. Publishing appears as an affable, gentlemanly vocation to the young graduate seeking a job. Industry has lost caste in the last few months and presents an impenetrable maze of intricacies to the novitiate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSULTANT ON CAREERS | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation out of the present maze of indecision, they are failing in their greatest trust. Revaluation may have been overworked as a theme for speeches and articles, but there is urgent need of its application as a principle of thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROBLEM FOR THE COLLEGES | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

...theatre or have sat down to a plum pudding only to find it has too much baking soda, they are apt to speak of King John. They are a great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/27/1931 | See Source »

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