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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recommending that more stress be laid on character and personal qualities in choosing worthy students, the Committee has put its finger on the heart of the whole problem. In the past the University has been content to give out aids to many applicants, sight unseen, whose numerical averages simply met the requirements. But if Harvard is to render the truly national service that the Conant Prize Plan anticipates, qualities of character--leadership, maturity, and general ability--as well as scholastic aptitude, must be considered in making the awards...
...Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow. Ahead of him had arrived his New Deal, the renovated and liberalized Indian Constitution based on Lord Linlithgow's own exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that the new Constitution gives him the power to be either a messiah or a tyrant...
...Second sight of Bury the Dead confirmed critical opinion that Irwin Shaw is a comer. His play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more...
...result, for years it has been only a question of time before twentieth century ideas would make the activities of the D. A. R. appear so loath-some that no clear-thinking modern woman would venture to have her name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano in the East Room. The task of upholding patriotism will then fall to the lower elements in the population. There is always the Massachusetts legislature...
...conclusion be it said that there remains, if any there was, no part in the performance that would bring a blush to the cheek of the most sensitive Boston virgin. And the only thing that bothered this reviewer was the sight of Mr. Hull's slimy, grimy Southern feet, when he took off his shoes...