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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen? Labor has called NRA a snare and delusion. General Johnson called it a dead dodo. As a Recovery measure New Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
Last year at Hanover a meet of this same kind was held with such success that the H.A.A. has agreed to sponsor the feature this winter in the hope of building up interest in intramural sports. Lowell House, champions of the House League for two years, and at present well on the way to a third victory, will provide the Crimson team for the basketball game, opposing an Indian quintet made up of players chosen from the 52 dormitory and fraternity teams at Hanover...
Edsall pointed to the success of a "special psychiatry unit in the Massachusetts General Hospital which should lead to a very much increased interest in the subject from the standpoint of the training of undergraduate and medical students...
...down to 20% of capacity. Tom Mercer Girdler boldly announced a $323,000,000 merger of his Republic Steel Corp. and Corrigan, McKinney (TIME, Sept. 10). Steelman Girdler slaved over the registration of $78,000,000 of securities and lined up enough stockholders to assure the deal's success...
However, there is room for a type of general concentration which would include two or more of the present "fields." The experiment of combining History and Literature is a proved success, with many more students clamoring to be admitted than is possible under the present limitations. Hundreds of students would like so to arrange their curriculum that two or three fields would assume equal importance. For these students, most of whom steadfastedly maintain this belief throughout college, diversification of studies would vastly increase the utility of college life. Particularly for members of this group, specialization in one field...