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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joining the H.S.U. some two months ago I was rather inclined to minimize the sinister tales of red influence in that organization. I do not think, however, that I am alone in saying that the recent internecine conflict within the Union has been somewhat disillusioning. As a result of Tuesday's meeting it now appears that at least four of the seven executive committee members are more or less active supporters of the present Russian government. These individuals and their spiritual fellows though in a minority were able to muster what was, for some liberal members, a rather surprising show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...apparatus is similar in principle to other cyclotrons now in construction or operation throughout the world all of which are based on the fundamental design developed by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...Many times in recent weeks, in talking to callers, the President has listed all 1940 Democratic aspirants, then damned them all with faint praise. For example: To many a caller Franklin Roosevelt has indicated that Cordell Hull is completely acceptable to him as the best 1940 compromise. But he also expressed fears that Mr. Hull is too old, and too much of a worrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...worst Harvard fires in recent years raged in the Kirkland House room of Milton B. Josem '40 and Bernard Rivin '40 for 45 minutes at the noon hour yesterday, and was finally put out only by the combined efforts of a score of firemen and over 50 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thesis Goes Up in Smoke as Kirkland Fire Sweeps Room | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

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