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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Philadelphia some 50 members of the Kingsley Club rose to their feet, spoke their pieces. Half-a-dozen took an extreme test before a radio microphone. Not a speaker faltered. Recited Philip Fairstone, 15, a high-school student: / try the teacher's patience, I start the pupils roaring; I break up the monotony Of classes that are boring. I am a stammerer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ex-Stammerers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, who advised Austrians to vote ja in the plebiscite, was supposedly rebuked by the Vatican, and voted ja himself with a Nazi salute (TIME, April 18). Last week the Christian Century, able U. S. nondenominational weekly, published an article by Martin Schroeder, Lutheran student of German church affairs, which offered a novel but specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hitler and Providence | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Palm Springs, Calif., Dr. Raymond Bridgman Cowles, student of desert snakes, got sick & tired of uninvited guests. Dr. Cowles surrounded his camp with a double line of mesh fence, in the runway between the fences let loose a number of diamondback rattlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...William A. Hinton of the Harvard Medical School will give a lecture on "Venereal Diseases: Their Treatment and Social Control" tonight at 8 o'clock in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. The meeting is jointly sponsored by the Harvard Student Union and the Association of Medical students, an organization at the Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hinton Will Lecture | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...students are so busy that the opportunity must remain closed to them; the main obstacles are laziness and intellectual torpidity. Possibly the University would do well to aid in overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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