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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delmont ("Bouboule" to the French Press because of his resemblance to a fat comic strip character popular throughout France). Besson was dragged to headquarters to start serving the ten-month jail sentence that seemed about to end forever his political career...
Healy's poem is published in pamphlet form for the benefit of the New Workers' School. It is indicative of his mastery of rhythm and sense. Healy s a poet who thinks, not the frenzied Vates of popular imagination. His "Portrait" bears the spiritual and ethical features of a contemporary figure; the broker, like the poor, is always with us, even if the knight-errant is dead and buried and has not even left a successor in the G-men. Healy's five stanzas are a study in free will; the last may be quoted here...
Swimming is the most popular winter sport among the Yardlings, 241 having chosen this form of exercise to meet their athletic requirements. Squash is a close second, with 221 racquetmen checking in at the University Courts three times a week...
English claims 412 concentrators, an increase of 51 over last year, and 372 men are working in the Department of Economics, the second most popular field...
Nearly one quarter of the 2,729 upperclassmen are now concentrating in economics and government. These two fields show the greatest increases over last year, while English remains in its position of many years standing as the most popular field of study at Harvard...