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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asserting that only by a stationary birth rate can a modern nation maintain the present high standard of living, Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, warned an audience of 150 people of the dangers of a declining birth rate, yesterday afternoon in New Lecture Hall...
...initiative. Going halfway with teacher, adviser, and dean is the obligation of each Freshman. Likewise, it is his duty to be useful in college, by contributing somehow to its life; particularly does it fall upon him to develop a practical social philosophy which will anchor his outlook on the modern world and make his knowledge beneficial to the community he will later join...
...idea of five hundred new Doctors of Philosophy a year in this country is appalling" declared H. Mumford Jones, professor of English, before the Modern Language Conference in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House last night...
...come to the conclusion that each non-sterile family will have to have four children in order to keep the birth rate from falling. Any social change which will bring about this proportion of children per family will involve radical economic changes. The high standard of living in modern democracies must be taken into consideration if any such step is taken...
With this shrewd focus, sharpened by careful writing, Author West sets out to bring Darwin into modern perspective, succeeds in making this newest biography of Darwin the freshest yet written. But with all his shrewdness Author West cannot quite clear up the great Darwin paradox: the contrast between his revolutionary work and the conventional Victorian who produced...