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...burning his hand? Nations DO get something, and enough, from their colonies, so that they will hang on to them. Somebody gets the gold, or somebody gets the trade, or somebody gets the glory, or somebody gets a good naval base, etc.; and generally, while a select few pocket the pickings, we know who pays the heavy taxation to maintain the military establishment. Professor Langer may quote all the statistics he can get, and I still won't believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

With the zero hour for Freshmen but two weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIM NOW! | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

Every year the Senior Fellows select several outstanding younger men who become Junior Fellows and frequently meet and dine with the older group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITEHEAD TO REMAIN AS FELLOW NEXT YEAR | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

Tryouts will be held today and tomorrow by the Dramatic Club to select actors for the spring production of "The Late Christopher Bean," by the Wellesley Barnswallows. The men chosen in these trials will appear in the male roles of this play at Alumnae Theatre on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barnswallow Tryouts for Wellesley | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...year's show by contributions and public sale of $1 carnival buttons. Citizens had saved their Christmas trees, donated them for street decorations. The WPA had furnished men to build a five-story ice palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens.'' Rudy Vallée, playing a week's orchestra engagement at St. Paul, was on hand to select from among them a consort for Carnival King Frank Madden, columnist on the St. Paul Dispatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hook 'Em Cow | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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