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Left peacefully slumbering in another committee is the Ramspeck bill, a valuable and constructive reform. Its proposals are diametrically opposed to those of the McKellar bill. Whereas the latter would place the appointment of fourteen thousand higher-class postmasters permanently under Senate control, the latter would take such appointments entirely out of the Senate's hands. Although providing no magic formula through which efficient government service can be realized, it is infinitely preferable to the perpetuation of a system which has undermined government administration for over three quarters of a century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE SPOILSMEN | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...thousand fossil plant specimens acquired during the past year has increased the Botanical Museum collection to more than 88,000 specimens, the largest and most representative paleobotanical collection in the world outside of the British Musum of Natural History, the annual report of the Museum reveals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Botanical Museum Report Shows New Total of 88,000 Specimens of Fossils | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

During the summer months preceding the Tercentenary celebrations and later during the festivities themselves, several thousand persons visited Cambridge, and were escorted by undergraduates through almost all the college buildings. Although these undergraduate guides gave interesting, well-informed lectures on the various Houses, the Law School buildings, and the old edifices in the Yard, the most popular tour was always the trip to see the glass flowers in the Peabody Museum. Both the young and the old from all parts of the country had heard of these famous imitation flowers, and usually expressed a desire to see them before anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LIFE'S WORK ENDED | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...writing as one of a thousand Catholic students representing 3,000 students to say that we have placed your magazine, TIME, on a condemned list of reading material. Our reasons are that your magazine is definitely Communistic in tone. Many of your pictures and articles are obscene; we feel that no student should use your magazine for any kind of reference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Your Children and Their Schools is Superintendent Vierling Kersey's introduction to Los Angelenos, whose schools he is this year supervising for the first time. He took a "visual education" teacher out of classes to make the photographs, appointed a junior high-school principal as editor. Ten thousand copies costing $10,800 were distributed free to civic leaders, libraries, universities, clubs, public officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedagogs' Pictures | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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