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...first it should be made clear that Harvard is fundamentally a liberal arts college, not a vocational school; we do not come here for the training per se, but rather for the effects it may produce. Therefore, it makes slight difference what field is picked for concentration or what courses are selected for distribution. And no one should care if we intend to be a lawyer or a shoe salesman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Best evidence that on the Rightist side things were not as they should be came when wily Juan March, ex-smuggler, tobacco king and munitions salesman, more recently financial angel to Insurgent Spain, hotfooted it out of San Sebastian and went to earth in Biarritz. Señor March's comings & goings-especially goings-in & out of Spain have long been one of the most reliable barometers of the Spanish political weather. When trouble is brewing, Señor March is generally found in neutral territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Case of the Dirty Shirt | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Citizens of Montgomery, Ala. noticed an old, blind Negro peanut vendor with an unusual line of sales talk: "Get yo' fresh parched peanuts, 5? a bag. Now don't you WTA workers be bashful, I'se got a special discount rate on for you all. Po' boys, we all know you all can't make no livin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...taken from a jail in Madrid last year by Communists of the Stalin persuasion and murdered. With this view many Socialists, including Norman Thomas, agree-while deprecating the further Trotskyist charge that the Government connived at the assassination. In court last week the Government prosecutor took the position that Señora Nin is the wife of a traitor who escaped from jail, fled abroad and has been in hiding for the past 26 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trotskyist Trial | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

More striking, however, than the economic talents, are the extracurricular talents "Mike" Elizalde will bring to the job of Resident Commissioner, which fun-loving Manuel Quezon plans to take over himself when his presidential term ends in 1941. A millionaire sportsman, Seňor Elizalde can play as well as trade with U.S. tycoons. With his brothers, Juan, Angel and Manolo-one of whom married a Spreckels of San Francisco-he used to have a polo team, rated at 19 goals, which won the Far Eastern title.* Besides enjoying the right to speak (but not vote) in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Commissioner Mike | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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