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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight bluntly told WPAsters how to vote (see p. 13), last week bluntly stated to the Conference his basic conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic recovery. . . . Our purpose is putting these people to work not to compete...
...last week of a book by Dr. Lowell called What a University President Has Learned.* Lowell fans who may have expected a penitent confession and prophetic insight distilled from his ordeal by fire were, however, disappointed. Dr. Lowell at 81 still thinks, for example, despite the contrary findings of modern psychologists, that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method...
...girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate. Thus last week, in traditional Quaker style. Isaac Cocks and Florence Willits became man and wife. Too plain a ritual for modern brides, it was only the second wedding ceremony the little Quaker meeting house, which was founded in 1725 and today counts few youngsters in its congregation, had seen in 102 years...
...Danish Count's reaction was not surprising. In marrying Barbara Hutton, he married not only a rich chain store heiress but a character created and promulgated by modern U. S. journalism. If he had not realized it, millions of U. S. newspaper readers had. To them, Babs is a serial story, exciting, enviable, absurd, romantic, unreal...
...trades. There many of them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...