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...decided to ban all fraternities and sororities. Fraternity supporters hooted and howled when Garcia tried to make a speech. Some parents joined in. "Several years ago," screamed one mother, "boys died to preserve the ideals you are treading on." Cried one fraternity brother: "Do you want us to roam the streets and become juvenile delinquents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gang Busters | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...countries really overpopulated? It depends on what is meant. A handful of primitive savages, who live by hunting, can "overpopulate" an enormous area of fertile country. They eat up all the food available to them, though the land over which they roam could support, if turned to farming, many hundred thousand people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Other members of the Key will roam through crowds as roving information centers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1952 Hears Conant Talk at Union | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...calls his book "an excursion into romantic zoology." It is a lighthearted excursion. A man of deep zoological faith, Ley believes that animal myths are based on actual fact, and that many fearful and wonderful creatures, undreamed of (and unlisted) by more unromantic zoologists, may still roam the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...reader," Jacobs told his staff. He began advertising the library in the papers, ran a steady list of new books. He organized his own Great Books program among doctors and teachers, lawyers and labor unions, talked factories into setting aside space for lunchtime reading. He bought two bookmobiles to roam the city five days a week, delivering books to the back districts of town. He started after the schoolkids, lecturing in classrooms, talking to teachers, enrolling the kids in a special summer reading program. Often, he found, the kids got their parents into the reading habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Turns of a Bookworm | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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