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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...control its policy. Musty research, benign scholasticism and dull philology are not fulfilling obligations to their subject or to students who might benefit from a more vigorous and timely presentation. That a broader cultural and literary approach might be used is merely one general suggestion. At any rate, if a classical education here is to turn out anything more than unenterprising pedants who will perpetuate the hollow tradition of the Latin requirement, the Classics department must step lively. It must show itself worthy of the comparatively large budget bestowed upon it-which alone indicates the University's realization...
...Monday lecture the noted Swedish economist discussed several plans for halting the decline in the birth rate. He urged the necessity of four children in every family, insisting that this standard must be reached...
...followed by an epidemic of soldiers denouncing their officers before Red Army courts-martial, these made up of other officers afraid not to convict lest they in turn be denounced, no matter how flimsy the evidence or grudge. Firing squads have been crackling all over Russia at such a rate that even the official Red Army organ Krasnaia Zvezda ("Red Star") has expressed concern at the "great depletion of regimental, brigade and divisional commanders." In one or two cases prospective purge victims in the Red Air Force have hopped into Soviet battle planes, escaped over the frontier...
Here, at any rate, under the aged Shotover's crazy roof, are inert, frightened, hamstrung individualists who in moments of terror can double up their fists but otherwise stand by, dazed and helpless. The world of Heartbreak House is not merely running down, it is cracking up: and in that dangerous hour the pretensions of its people-who represent an entire civilization-are mercilessly exposed by a playwright who despises them. If, on the one hand, these characters are the prototypes for all the bughouse comedy that has recently come into vogue, on the other hand some of theare...
...Refused to help the hard-pressed telegraph companies, as FCC denied their petition for a 15% rate increase. Like the railroads the U. S. wire companies currently suffer from increased costs, decreased income. In 1937 Western Union made only $3,325,000 on gross of $100,400,000. Postal Telegraph, which is in 77B reorganization, lost about as much on its land line operations. Rate cuts for night letters did little good and so last December the companies asked a fat step-up in domestic rates. Last week FCC gave no reason for saying...