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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking at the Old South Meeting House Forum, Sunday afternoon on the topic "Is Russia An Economic Menace?" B. C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, will add one more distinctly up-to-date chapter to the conclusions embodied in his book. "Pan-Sovietism", which appeared last April and which was based on his Lowell lecture series immediately preceding. Since delivering these lectures and having them published Professor Hopper has again been in Russia. He brings to the public for the first time, on Sunday, his economic conclusions drawn from this latest study of Communism in action...
...mostly in Germany and France, has had many editorial connections, including an editorship of Collier's for nearly 10 years and of Harper's weekly for three years. His editorial experience and his subsequent keen interest in American politics equip him to speak with authority and penetration on this topic...
Coach J. M. Swigert '30 will rehearse his men on one subject only for the next three debates, the general topic of capitalism. On Saturday, February 20 the debaters will face Dartmouth in Cambridge, speaking on the subject, "Resolved that capital is a failure." The sides of the question have not as yet been assigned, but it is probable that the Crimson will uphold the affirmative. The second debate on capitalism comes on Saturday, March 12, when the team meets an aggregation from the University of Florida, probably speaking on the affirmative side of the topic "Resolved, That Congress should...
...selections published in this volume cover thoroughly, with the exception of the topic. Holmes' judicial career from 1899, when he presided as chief justice over the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, to the recent case of New Jersey v. New York over the diversion of water from certain tributaries of the Delaware River to increase the water, supply of New York City. The exception is Holmes' opinions on prohibition, in which, true to his liberal philosophy, he has favored the right of the government to experiment with social reform. Save for one case in which a bootlegger's income...
Returning to the topic of polar exploration by air, Mr. Stefansson declared that the airplane is only a means of scouting or reconnoitering in the polar regions, not a means of real exploration. "Exploring a region by air is just like describing the botany of a country by flying over if," Mr. Stefansson said in conclusion