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...purchased their red sweaters, probably before New Hampshire comes to the Stadium, the Band will appear clad in the traditional costume, of red sweater, white ducks, and white sailor cap. After coming out of formation, the men this year will take their places in front of both stands to render novelty symphonic arrangements of football songs. More specialties, like last year's "Wintergreen For President," are promised...
...London reporters, Negro Singer Paul Robeson declared that he would never again sing in Italian. French or German, was looking instead for a "great Russian opera or play, or some great Hebrew or Chinese work which I feel I shall be able to render with the necessary degree of understanding." Said he: "I do not under stand the psychology or philosophy of the Frenchman, German or Italian. Their history has nothing in common with the history of my slave-ancestors. So I will not sing their music, nor the songs of their ancestors. . . . The trouble with the American Negro...
Summer School students who teach in high or preparatory schools might render a service to pupils interested in coming to Harvard by bringing these facts to their attention. Each year a few students who do not secure scholarships or waiting jobs enter the College hoping somehow to earn enough to carry them through the year. The College would like to see them succeed, but its facilities for aid, after all, are finite, and it cannot render assistance beyond its own resources. It is distressing to see these over-hopeful Freshmen obliged to drop out in the middle of the year...
...refused to dally with its labor policy and had carefully detailed plans for company unions. Employes might bargain collectively-but only by electing their own representatives "on the premises of the employer." In case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week Steel and Labor were preparing for a red-hot battle at hearings before the National Recovery...
...There has been a great cry for economic planning. I often wonder whether the people who call for it really mean what they say. Are they willing to sur render their individual freedom to the extent necessary to cooperate in a plan. . . . Rugged individualism is not so bad, however much we jeer the phrase today...