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...Every so often, the officers neglect to enforce the law prohibiting parking after 2 o'clock in the morning, and it is necessary to have them clamp down on the boys," the Cambridge police chief added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief Leahy Starts Campaign Against Overnight Parking | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...worries and obligations attendant upon a full professorship, Henry N. Smith, Counsellor in the Union, seems an excellent choice for executive head of the American Civilization Plan. The President would do well to waive the question of rank, and appoint this logical candidate. The Plan perished once from administrative neglect; it is not long likely to display the tenacity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEADLESS BUT HOPING | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...pointed out that the committee foresaw no such immediate action as was taken. Criticism ran all the way from the one that called it an ungracious act on the part of Harvard to those who had served it well for many years to that which deduced a trend toward neglect of the College in favor of the University. Strongly supporting the latter view was the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa which condemned the loss of the experienced "middle group" of teachers and tutors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACULTY'S FIRST ROUND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...slide-rule"--rather he looks into the future warning that "the elimination of an entire age group in the faculty is threatened--one which provides most of the experienced teaching available to undergraduates." While Mr. Ross devotes a good part of his analysis to this threat, he does not neglect other disturbing aspects of the administration's policy, including those he considers of less immediate concern to the student body...

Author: By Professor OF Mathematics and M. H. Stone, S | Title: On The Rack | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

...writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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