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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genius at rendering intimate accounts of New England life in poetry has caused him to be recognized as one of our foremost American poets and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1930, and 1937, in addition to many other awards and honorary degrees...
...major portion of the drill again consisted of running off plays on the bags--to the tune of one hour. The last 15 minutes were under the lights. The passing yesterday was only mediocre, and the practice as a whole was not as satisfactory as Monday...
...studies of the economic plight of American youth appearing recently have meaning for all college students. One of them, prepared by the American Youth Commission, is nation-wide and represents conclusions of experts. The other, a scientific polling of a cross-section of New York youth by the Y.M.C.A., states the beliefs of the youths themselves. Though the two reports take different methods of approach they reach the same conclusion--there is a definite need for more vocational training today. And their conclusion is further evidence of a dangerous trend in American educational method...
Creation of a great mass of vocationally trained people on the one hand and a comparatively small group of culturally educated persons on the other, would tend to destroy the unifying force in American democracy. For one of the bases of democracy is a common, diversified education. Education along these lines enables all classes of men to communicate with each other, to govern themselves, to lead richer lives. Abolish or seriously restrict a cultural education and the common bond of free men disintegrates...
...authors have been investigating aente and chronic anemias and have found that those which follow poisoning by the war gas arsine, misuse of the new chemical sulfanilamide, and one kind of heart disease result from stagnation of the blood within the blood vessels...