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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Space limits prevent treatment of each of the other special fields, although comments on courses in them will be found in other articles. In general Romance Languages are considered weak with the exception of Morize. German is good but has lost many brilliant men. To a very definite extent the department is becoming limited to its main fields, but this should not discourage would-be concentrators from exploring opportunities in the less emphasized branches. Further supplementary courses such as Levin's course on the novel and Taylor's on the Medieval mind should be worked into the plan of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUMANITIES AS FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...serious and far-reaching implications of direct military action for the economy and institutions of the United States. But we believe that a totalitarian victory would constitute a more serious threat to the economic, political, and moral aspects of the American way of life than a war to prevent such a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Defense League Merges With Militant Aid Committee | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

...Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder, for legislative action to prevent strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Nothing Serious | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...kindly treated until they are too much of a burden; then, with their own consent, they are left on the ice. Eskimos respect each other's privacy so much that they can watch an unhappy old man strangle himself, feel they have no right to prevent him. Sometimes the old, losing the will to live, die quietly of that alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Stone-Age Winter | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...waiters find that the Union kitchen is a model of cleanliness," the petition continued. "The stove, which is cleaned before and after each meal, is greasy because it is impossible to prevent it from being spattered in the course of preparing several hundred varied orders. The personnel is more conscientious as to responsibility and cleanliness than the staffs of the majority of restaurants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN WAITERS SAY REPORT ON POISONED FOOD IS WAY OFF THE TRACK | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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