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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back coaching at Pillsbury Academy. As head coach at Tulane, he made the Green Wall surf that roared over the U.S.A. every fall. When he returned to Minneapolis to coach the Gophers in part his problem was to turn powerful Norsemen thinkers on the field. Graying, quiet, Bernie Bierman does not remember a time his life wasn't certain around football, except possible his first six years in Springfield, Minn., before he had been taught to distinguish a football from a rattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

With a faculty committee poring over an exhaustive report on the curriculum, the Law School this fall has begun to play the part of a major university problem. Beset on the outside by rapidly shifting concepts of legal thinking and tied from within by the system of teaching to which it has adhered for a generation, the school which was once the brightest star in the Harvard firmament has suffered a threat to its supremacy. That the faculty has waked up to the dangers is an encouraging sign, but in planning any changes in legal education the committee should keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BRAMBLEBUSH" | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

What can perhaps be called the nearest solution to this problem has been utilized by Eliot House to a remarkable degree of efficiency and popularity. This consists in a personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREASING THE HOUSE WHEELS | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

...Executive Council of the I.S.U. are the real outlaws in this strike," charged Joseph Curran, leader of the current Eastern seaboard strike, to vice-president Halloran of the American Republic Lines, representing the interests of the shipowners in a discussion of the problem last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. SPONSORS DEBATE ON MARITIME STRIKES | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

...called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign banking houses, whose margins are lower than those demanded in the U. S. But discussed with perfect seriousness was the possibility of a ban on importations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Money | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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