Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamberlain noted with regret the impression prevailing here that Dartmouth men do not study. This belief is emphatically untrue--although he conceded that Harvard men seem to study more. The Dartmouth dean has heard "many stories" about History I and professed amazement at the size of the assignments...
...would seem that the positions left vacant last year by the graduation of George Ford, Louis Carr, Leo Ecker, and Specs Mahoney would be hard to fill. Each of them was a superb hockey player. But lack of hockey material has not been a problem at Harvard for a good many years. Thus Joe Stubbs has many left-overs of last year and a few new men who ought to be capable of making the loss from graduation practically negligible...
...less to construct buildings. Second, graduate schools of journalism have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their peculiar standards. For these two reasons, lack of proper finances and the questionable success of similar ventures, a Graduate School of Journalism does not seem to be the answer to Harvard's problem...
...Methodist churches seem to be finding a new unity in the U. S., in foreign lands they face new problems. In Chicago last week met the Board of Foreign Missions of the Northern Methodist Church. Chief question before the Methodists, as it has lately been before other missionizing churches, was: What to do about the Sino-Japanese War? U. S. Protestant churches spend nearly $4,000,000 a year for their Chinese missions, have many more millions invested in their 252 hospitals, their 21 colleges and universities. Of the missionaries who run such institutions, fully 95% have declined to leave...
...year Mr. Schulte's story would end if Horatio Alger had written it, the Schulte Real Estate Co. made almost $2,000,000, and Mr. Schulte was drawing profits as well from a lot of other real estate companies. But by 1936 real estate did not seem such a good investment...