Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin as an added effort, with the backing of other American republics, but held his hand. It seemed he had fired for peace all the ammunition left in his locker. Next move would be to recall Congress, ask it to revise Neutrality. But that move he could not well take before actual war broke and its form was known. Meantime, should formal war be declared, he was bound to withhold from its angers all U. S. weapons (above calibre .22) and ammunition, from pistols through planes, motors and warships to flamethrowers, to the belligerents...
Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
...find two people who can agree on the ideal of a liberally educated man. This much seems certain--such a man should have catholic tastes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life
...Registration period for Widener Library tours, Harvard Union, Tours will be conducted on Saturday afternoon, September 23, and on Monday, September 25, and Tuesday, September 26. The purpose of these tours is to introduce the new students to the Harvard Library. The tours will take approximately fifty minutes each...
...Examination for examination from English A, New Lecture Hall. Now freshmen who did not take the College Board examination in English given in June, 1939, and these who did take it and received a grade of less than 595 but not less than 560 are eligible to take the examination for exemption from English...