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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every college has its isolated instances of cheating and illegitimate tutoring. But only at Harvard has this been elevated to the status of large-scale commercial enterprise. Harvard's position is unique in the collegiate scene when it comes to the high-pressure tactics, the money-magnetic propensities, the universally rotten influence of her tutors. Nowhere else do they openly exhibit their wares in the authorized student publications. Nowhere else do they presume to stuff their literature into student mail boxes for months without end, throughout the entire academic session. And nowhere else have they established themselves so securely that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tutoring School Racket | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

...notable exception is Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State. Last week Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, 71, suddenly reappeared in the public eye in a way which clearly rated him the one real Elder Statesman now on the U. S. scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extend? Revise? Junk? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...though independent characters, they are still part of a greater scene. The Dust Storms have pushed them along with countless thousands like them from their land of which they were so proud just because it was theirs and because it was solid and dependable. Bewildered, they drag themselves in droves to California, the land of milk and honey; their faith necessary to carry on is built on expectation of a Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...Music' I have as good a time as possible, especially in the spy scene, where I can flutter about to my heart's content, distributing revolutionary propaganda all over the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beatrice Lillie Finds Career Packed With Fun; Every Curtain An Event | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Things have come to a pretty pass! The girls are pretty and college boys are making passes at them. With the virtual disappearance of the goldfish from the university scene, the latest snatch of Americans concerns itself with the time dishonored custom of kissing in public. whether such a fad can be hailed as a sign of the advent of free love, or whether it is significant of the moral decay of our younger generation is indeed a question of the utmost import. At any rate, as one noted educator put it recently, "... it's certainly more fun than goldfish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT NEXT, YOUTH? | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

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