Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate, I believe, to see such an eminent historian as Professor Langer, fall below his usual standard of clear-thinking in his recent article on "The Revival of Imperialism" appearing in the March Issue of the "Harvard Guardian". Professor Langer says, that "it has been shown over and over again and proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand...
...interest among the numerous notes which complete the Review is an article on The Constitutionality of the Federal Relief Measures, discussing the Resettlement Administration. Under the caption of Legislation is a treatment of the recent Johnson Act which denies Federal District Courts control of State Public Utilities Commissions and at the same time returns the jurisdiction to the State courts...
...choice of Dr. Jose Ortega y Gasset as the Godkin Lecturer for this spring is a fortunate one, in keeping with the high standards of recent years. A political thinker of the first rank, Professor Ortega has contributed heavily to the literature in his field. Most notable of his written works is "The Revolt of the Masses", translated in 1932, a book showing a great grasp of modern social problems and able power to present them...
...recent election to fill next year's executive posts of Phillips Brooks House leaves the gate open for a critical appraisal of the usefulness of the president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. There is reasonable justification for believing that the positions may be mere rewards for past services to the House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control...
...year's annual banquet is a landmark in the history of Harvard's comic magazine. Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, President, announced last night that among the speakers and former Lampooners present would be famous cartoonist Gluyas Williams '10. Likewise present will be John P. Marquand '14, author of the recent best seller "The Late George Apley...