Word: new
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdone, the French have devised a new strategy aimed at hypnotizing the enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer...
...spring months of last year saw two sweeping statements on Harvard education--a report of a special Faculty committee recommending a new "area" plan of concentration, and a Student Council report advocating the introduction of five broad survey courses, to be compulsory. The first is slowly reaching the stage of reality, while the second, to the best of anyone's knowledge, is just gathering dust in the Publications Office...
...there is no reason why the Student Council report should lie dormant. It is, in fact, based on the same principle as the "area" plan--the fight against too complete segregation of separate branches of learning. The Council's five broad survey courses bear a close relation to the new fields of concentration envisaged by the Faculty committee. The professors now working on the "area" project would find that the Student Council is in agreement with them as to the direction Harvard education must take. If anyone is going to act on the Council's report, they are the ones...
...NEW YORK--Selling in leading industrial shares, purported to have come from the Allied Powers which are attempting to build up dollar balances in this country for the purchase of war materials, brought a reaction into the stock market today after early firmness...
Although the personnel of the project is already quite large, the Workshop is holding a meeting at 7:30 o'clock on Monday, in the organization's offices at 46 Holyoke Street, to recruit new members, preferably from the Sophomores and Freshmen classes, although others are not excluded...