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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of friendship with a Democratic Administration. A Democrat himself, he served for a while under Secretary Morgenthau as a Treasury adviser. White-haired, ruddy well-brushed President Smith wears his Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain, said last week: "I am convinced that there is no problem in banking confronting us today which research, education and co-operation cannot solve. They are the bulwarks upon which I base my hope for American banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at San Francisco | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Although, on account of the absence of the President, no change in the regulations can be made until late October, undergraduates would do well to consider all possible solutions to the problem in the meantime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EYE OF HEAVEN | 10/2/1936 | See Source »

Until the creation of Dudley Hall the Commuters were in possession of Harvard's perennial and unsolvable problem. A three-cornered situation existed between Phillips Brooks House where the entire commuting body crowded into insufficient quarters and hampered the smooth running of the Social Service menage; the Dean's office where lack of funds or building blocked reform; and the Day Scholars who saw themselves, with justice, the owners of the soubriquet, "the University's forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Hall Already Boasts Memberships of 140 As Second Year Begins; Only 160 Joined in 1936 | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...interesting and timely article appearing in the latest Harvard A, A. News, Freshman Coach Adolph Samborski discusses the problem of Freshman athletics from a novel angle. At the present, with many Freshmen still undecided as to which branch of sports they wish to devote their time to, this article might well serve as required reading, for the question of team versus individual athletics is ably discussed and frankly met. Mr. Samborski reaches the conclusion that too many Freshmen feel urged to participate in organized sports and try to "make the team", often hurriedly, and perhaps in some cases inadvisedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN ON THE FIELD | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

...scores of manuscripts already completed. His problem (and Max Perkins's) is to fit them in with other things he has done. A lot of his work has been wasted because they can't see how to fit it in with the rest. But with a great deal of good luck the larger part of it will eventually find publication and most of the gaps in Mr. Wolfe's great catalogue of America will be filled...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

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