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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active in the same capacity. The exception is the man who went to the Cleveland Museum of Art at a salary three times what we were paying him. My relations with him are still cordial and in his books he states that a good part of his well-known success he owes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...informally discriminating against U.S. exports. Such action probably violates the U. S.-Danish most favored nation treaty, but Washington has made only cautious, informal protests. Reason: a squabble now would merely embitter U. S. Danish relations, would make it harder for President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make a success of his policy of tariff bargaining with foreign nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Import Tsar | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence and enthusiasm of the parents. Any feeling of competition is avoided; the child is to compete not against his fellows but against his own previous efforts. Flexible, searching, the Hessian Hills theory (though disclaimed as a theory) was well under way by 1931. With Robert Imandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Hessian Hills | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...justified doubt as to the advisability of individual attention for boys of Preparatory school age. Men weaned on the "five-hundred-times-neatly-in-ink" policy have felt that such treatment would undermine rather than develop the resourcefulness and independence upon which hangs youth's virility and chances for success at college. And had the Exeter faculty failed to recognize such a possibility and to counteract it by an iron hand beneath the velveteen, the shell-backed pessimism would have been amply substantiated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EXETER PLAN | 12/16/1932 | See Source »

...trenchant and impartial criticism at the organizations and policies of the University. The closer the Critic adheres to its announced intentions in that regard, the better it wil serve the University. The CRIMSON is glad to welcome the Critic to the field of undergraduate publications, and wish it good success on its enterprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD CRITIC | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

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