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...come to us that there is growing alarm among the people of this country and even our own graduates that the undergraduate body is taking part in organized un-American activities--such as picketing so-called "war-monger" lectures, distributing uncooperative propaganda, a general smug attitude toward the recent national defense legislation, and a lack of interest in the military, naval, and C.A.A. units here at Harvard...
Reynaud on Force. Monger or not, little Paul Reynaud talked aggressive war as his regime, its working Chamber majority upped from one to 17 by belated switched votes and given the tardy blessing of the sulky Right by an accolade from L'Epoque Editor Henri de Kérillis, went into its second week. To London Premier Reynaud flew for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council, where tougher tactics toward all neutrals-and that went for the U. S. S. R.-were agreed upon...
...term "snap" has been used rather too loosely by undergraduate authorities to designate any course which requires less energy output than the average. In a more precise terminology, there is a very small and exclusive category of "snaps," which can fulfill the wildest dreams of the party-monger and the crew man. These courses can usually be detected by a survey of enrollment statistics. Thus, when six hundred percent more students suddenly find their souls stirred by the esoteric beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years...
...SCANDAL MONGER ? Emile Gauvreau?Macaulay...
...detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings...