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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds recognizes the tendency in his own college, and he doesn't like it. In his annual report to the trustees this week, President Dodds deplored what he called "a flight from the humanities." Twenty-five years ago, 44% of Princeton students were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bad Fad | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

In the second part of the book, Professor Joughin shows how society, both in the immediate locality and the rest of the world, reacted to this case. When the lines were drawn, the temper of both sides erupted in all the usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmsson, | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

One week ago, a large proportion of the undergraduates who live at Houses fed by the Kirkland central kitchen were struck down by dysentery. The victims rose as a man and demanded that something be done. Immediately, the University Sanitation Office offered a two-point program to halt further outbreaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chronic Ailment | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Wigs & Lots of Teeth | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The RLD survey also found that a much larger proportion of Truman backers were of voting age than their pro Dewey counterparts. Twenty two percent of the Trumanites are over 21, contrasted to 10 percent of the Deweyites, and 8 percent of the Wallace backers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straw Balloting At Annex Shows Dewey Landslide | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

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