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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Harvard awards a total of approximately three hundred thousand dollars in scholarships to six hundred men every year, it is essential that the awards be on as wise and accurate a basis as possible. Insofar as Mr. Sharpe, continues to make needed changes which work toward a better distribution of these funds, he will be contributing of the achievement of President Conant's goal of "a carefully administrated scholarship system...
Nearly forty thousand men and women took courses given by the University Commission on Extension Courses...
...thousand petitioners on his behalf are not the only ones to rejoice that Dr. Kilpatrick is given a fresh mount from which to tilt at his foes. With John Dewey and George Counts he is one of the "three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with...
...photography was done from an airplane, giving an excellent panorama of the Orient. Reproductions of the Tower of Babel and of Solomon's stables; the great art and architecture of the Palace of Darias; the hundred-foot-high Arch of Gtesiphon, which has withstood the storms of two thousand years; weapons used at Armageddon long before St. John's famous prophecy--scenes like these more than make up for the inevitable shots of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the pyramids of the Pharaohs, and the ridiculous dances of the expedition's native workmen...
...thousand dog-lovers were packed around a great square of faded green carpet in Madison Square Garden when the class champions, aloof and self-possessed as dowagers at a benefit, trotted in for the final judging. Under the arc lights the best hound, a snowy greyhound named White Rose of Boveway, was a study in rippling marble. Best working dog was the ugly, muscular boxer, Dorian von Marienhof, whose owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang...