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...cash scholarships, but both. Some individuals undeniably benefit by the work experience, while others find it too heavy a drain on their energies. There are enough of each variety here to make it practical for Harvard to combine the two types of scholarships. Mr. Conant, by lending his sanction to the Temporary Student Employment Plan, has shown that he realizes this, and that his scholarship views are after all not, in practice, so very different from those of Mr. Williams...
General examinations were intended to be the sanction for tutorial, but in fact they are not. Consequently the Council presents a plan for making a satisfactory tutorial record a definite part of the requirements for promotion, for the degree and for honors,--for providing tutorial instruction of some sort as a normal part of the college education of every Harvard man. It is proposed that at the end of each year the tutor shall render to the Department, and the Department to University Hall, a report on each tutorial student, either "Satisfactory" or "Unsatisfactory...
...George Lowther 3rd, 30-year-old café socialite, and pretty, 20-year-old Eileen Herrick were in love. Eileen's father disapproved of George, kept Eileen locked up at home. On a writ of habeas corpus George haled Eileen & father into court (TIME, Nov. 27), got legal sanction for his courtship. But Father Herrick spirited Eileen away, frustrating George, delighting Manhattan's millions...
Cordell Hull has not only sharply declined, in most specific terms, to sanction any movement designed to make him a candidate; he has stated he will refuse to run. But the wise men know that Mr. Hull's reluctance can be overcome and when that will be-when his trade agreement program is safely in harbor. Solemnly all Washington admits that if Mr. Hull today were to be given his choice of the Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election...
...good for Gentiles, it is not the best religion for Jews. To cherish it in withdrawal from the rest of society may be defended in a hostile environment . . . but in the environment of American tolerance ... it is not fair to democracy to cherish a religious faith which provides a sanction for racial or cultural or any other form of separatism...