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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the original deluge of student interest had been organized into well-charted panel discussions, the next day saw the whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate...
Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating detail: the processes of casting in bronze, techniques and mechanisms for making enlargements from a small model, tools, tempers and techniques for working in different types of stone, an orderly scheme for scrubbing a studio...
According to the Student Opinion Surveys and your editorial of April 14th, American students hope to save democracy by stopping Hitler. . We were supposed to have saved it in 1918. The new crop of totalitarian states stretching from Russia to Germany was the saving. Of course, if we are good myth-makers and word-twisters, we can believe in the democracy existing in Russia, Poland and Rumania today...
Harvard's Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...
...means in addition the abolition of a certain amount of contact with the rest of the collegiate world, and a shrinking back into a cramped Cambridge-New Haven shell. Fortunately these effects are quantitatively unimportant. And opposite them can be entered the more-than-compensating gains to the student body as a whole...