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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugurations are sentimental occasions. Last week for 200,000 visitors to Washington-not counting several thousand who arrived in the Union Station and never got any farther because of the downpour-the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the U. S. was a sentimental historical ducking in five acts Act I took place in mid-morning at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. There the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, held services just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin...
...total of 8,263 students, of whom 8,042 are from the United States proper, is an increase of several hundred over the total of the last two years. The college contributes almost half of this, almost four thousand, the Law School another thousand and a half, followed by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with 915 and the Business School with 874. The Medical School is pretty strictly limited and contributes only...
...Other members were University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing in Washington, the Committee produced a thoughtful and persuasive report which of itself was no more significant than a thousand other more or less Utopian schemes concocted by academicians in the past. It took on vast importance because it embodied the long-cherished desires of a U. S. President, who, at the peak of his power, had decided to do something about them. Cried President Roosevelt in his message accompanying...
Sunday night in a long fest of bull with friends and a discussion (invoked by the hideous fact of our common servitude under Mr. Brinton in Intellectual History) of what is progress. Which tied us up in a thousand knots such as what is civilization what is man what is science what is anything. Some of us wanted to let it go at that and make up limericks...
...people, princely and middle class, proletarian and peasant, swarmed into The Hague last week-so many that all its hotels and lodging houses could not begin to hold them. Restaurants and cafes received special permission from Her Majesty's Government to keep open clear around the clock. Ten thousand Netherlands soldiers had not so much the job of keeping order as of making sure that no gin-sipping celebrant fell into one of The Hague's canals, and none did. Piping hot Dutch chocolate, served from Army field kitchens with cake, kept the 10,000 soldiers warm...