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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern colleges has warned its prom committees that no swing will be tolerated at official school dances. If this sort of thing continues, news reports will soon read...
...Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street," and one Federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy...
Ever since old Memorial Hall -- still standing, in spite of recent reports--was converted from a dining hall to an examination chamber, graduate students have been in need of an acceptable substitute. Restaurants about the Square have served as a sort of stop-gap, and so prospered under the arrangement that they were ready to fight even the small student cooperative which is now safely located in Andover Hall. Their fight, which probably included pressure on the Cambridge Savings Bank to deny an important lease, was unsuccessful, and today the cooperative is clear evidence that the problem can be solved...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...true that actions similar to Professor Bridgman's involve us in a vicious circle where defense of our traditions paradoxically subverts them. In any case, some sort of implementation of our beliefs is necessary. Tolerance of intolerance insidiously becomes suicide...