Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the many suggestions for the improvement of the lecture system put forth by the Seniors in response to the recent CRIMSON lecture poll was a request that less material readily accessible to the student in textbooks be rehashed in the lectures themselves, and that the delivery of most of the lecturers must be improved if the system is to justify itself. In line with the latter suggestion, several students suggested a compulsory public speaking course for all lecturers...
Sirs: In your issue of April 15 you make this astounding statement with respect to the Supreme Court's second Scottsboro decision: "Alabamans and the Press of the entire South took that decision with a stunned and apprehensive silence. . . ." So far from receiving the recent findings with "a stunned and apprehensive silence," editors throughout the South commented immediately, and most of those whose comments I saw not only thought the Supreme Court entirely justified in its action, but expressed gratification that the conviction had been set aside...
Confronted with this fact, silver speculators suddenly realized another: in less than a year the U. S. had bought some 400,000,000 oz.-a drop in the bucket compared to 12,000,000,000 oz. which are supposed to exist, but more than twice the world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised...
Written by Clifford Odets, whose recent play "Wait and Sing" is being considered for the Pulitzer Prize. "Waiting for Lefty" is a one-act drama of the recent taxi-driver strike in New York City. An informal dance will be held following the presentation at Brattle Hall...
Cringing beneath the refusal of President Conant to grant News heelers an interview during his recent visit to the nation's capital, the Yale daily yesterday printed the following article on page one, and again on page three...