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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy 1 is often a good way in which to complete a schedule with the prospect of taking Philosophy B or a more advanced course later on. The reading, the short quizzes, and the papers are not unreasonable, but they require intelligent treatment for which you may be better prepared next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 12/12/1934 | See Source »

...statement, just as explicit, just as forceful, but hardly as considerate. It says that lady guests will not be allowed in the Dining Hall. We suppose, giving the Entertainment Committee the benefit of the doubt, that it means for dinner, but then, one can never be sure, and the prospect of waltzing with the Dining Hall, tables is far from pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

This time, however, the demand involves far more than the previous cries for a mere change in coaches. For, though few of those who are protesting realize it, today the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports is faced with the prospect of a possible alteration in the fundamental principle of participation in athletic contests at Harvard. Stated briefly, the Committee must decide whether or not it will countenance a swing from the laissez-faire method of athletic competition to a system involving "high pressure" instruction and heavy emphasis on pure victory. Or, expressed more simply, the Committee must decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS IT A GAME OR AN INDUSTRY? | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...American Federation of Labor, Thomas Kennedy of the United Mine Workers, Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, Harold W. Story of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., not to mention a small army of professors, physicians, health officials and social workers. Some of the conferees were so excited by the prospect of the broad field before them that they wanted to gallop right out and start plowing before the President had determined the distance or direction of the furrows. One such was Relief Administrator Hopkins who fired the conference by impatiently exclaiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...late successes on the football field, together with the near prospect of a game with Yale, has awakened a lively interest in football throughout the College. It is well known that Harvard declined to join the Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 11/24/1934 | See Source »

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