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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these opinions will immediately produce new leaders is hard to predict. It is even harder to foretell is hard to predict. It is even harder to foretell when these new sentiments will make themselves felt. But, if these surveys can be regarded in any way as prophetic, one thing seems sure: the new generation of voters will cause a profound change in the ideas and principles that compose the American body politic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AUTRES TEMPS..." | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

...merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer for him when he exclaims, "I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do'." It is perhaps significant that in Lacrtes one finds a man not vividly contrasting, but in many ways similar, to the Evans Hamlet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

During late years we have cheered at our football games, watched our cheer leader essay a few cautious "flips", and we even went so far as to hold a football "pep" rally (horrors!) to show the team our support. A few years back the Harvard riots were thing to be talked about. These are all Joe College activities, and yet we have never stigmatized them by that appellation. they constitute an example of Harvard's regeneration from a played-up, highly publicized and dramatized, artificial indifference which is not nearly so fundamental as we are led to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

There are only two seniors in the first boat, Rowe and Talbot, which means one thing in particular--that Harvard has a chance in the Olympic trials next year. However, as far as this one fact is concerned, the California crew and the Yale crew are both starting out the season with no seniors aboard...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: VARSITY BOATING APPEARS DECIDED | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...thing that did it was a short return engagement of their beloved onetime musical director, Leopold Stokowski. First storm-signals flew when word leaked out that Conductor Ormandy had fired fuzzy-headed first cellist, Isadore Gusikoff, because Gusikoff "made him nervous." Cellist Gusikoff promptly sued for the rest of his season's pay, proudly admitted that he had conducted a "silence strike" while sitting in the orchestra, accused Conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia Scrapple | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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