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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintain so far as possible the status of neutrals in war. this last is, probably, out of the question at the present time, for there are new to recognized neutral rights whatever; and since the world war we have made no serious attempts to establish such right...
With clarity and force the Student Council has raised its voice against the effects of the Administration's present tenure policy. In its statement Tuesday night, the Council decried the inflexibility inherent in the present "up-or-out" hiring and firing rule. And it expressed the fear in the hearts of many teachers and more undergraduates when it noted that "standards of undergraduate teaching are seriously threatened...
...Council has suggested two alternatives to the Administration's present course: the setting up of a "President's Fund" to take care of pressing short-run departmental needs; and the appointment of associate professors even without the mathematical certainty that they will be promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration...
With the exception of the opening scene in the second act, in which Jack Cole and His Dancers turn in an expert and hair-raising number, the present offering at the Shubert dies a lingering and painful death. It seems strange a man of such high standing in the theatre as Mr. Schwab could have become associated with "Nice Goin...
...laurels of the present production of "Out-ward Bound" go to Laurette Taylor and Florence Reed. Of course Sutton Vane's plot gives them ample substance with which to work, but they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...