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...Harvard stands a good chance of corning out on top today, especially if Loughlin is in the box. On the other hand, Yale's record this year shouldn't mislead anyone into thinking that the pins are set up. Six victories out of 19 starts is pretty bad, granted, while Mitchell's men have taken nine, tied one in 30 attempts. This sets up an average of 316 against 474 discounting the tie. There are two reasons this can't be counted on; the fact teams rise to unexpected heights in Harvard-Yale game and the fact that the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Meets Eli Today After Rain Cancels First Game | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

Lest the set-up of your two stories on pacifism in Wednesday morning's paper mislead, I should like to make clear the extent of the Liberal Club's participation in those movements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Connection For Liberals | 4/12/1934 | See Source »

...failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo and propaganda?" These, explained General Johnson, were empty words hurled by NRA's detractors to mislead the public. The field of criticism was further narrowed by the redoubtable General as he concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Kicking Party (Cont'd) | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...effort of Erasmus and his contemporaries to place the "literae human-iores" beside the "literae divinae" which claimed a monopoly of medieval erudition. Rabelais, Montaigne and Babbitt are found together, all on the side of the angels: the famous sign over the door of the Abbey of Theleme has mislead those who forget that only the "well born, well instructed, conversing in honest company" were invited. Humanism is not hedonism, which is in fact a potential consequence of that naturalism which humanism challenges. It is not secularism, either. The Renaissance pioneers only demanded a hearing for Cicero; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Here is material which will be equally attractive to the seasoned Whitehead student and to the uninitiated. But the title "Adventures of Ideas" should not mislead any one into believing that it is a popularization of Professor Whitehead's ideas. It stands on exactly the same level with the two other members of the trilogy; yet it is not as abstract and difficult to understand as the others, because it deals largely with historical studies...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

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