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...cold summer with excessive rainfall or a long blistering drought can reduce crops to such a point that President Roosevelt might have an acute food shortage on his hands. On the other hand an ideal combination of sun & rain can produce such bumper crops as to wipe out all trace of acreage cuts and send prices slumping to even lower levels. One year an acre will produce 12 bu. of wheat, the next 24 bu. Such is the gamble Secretary Wallace must take...
...development of our great social institutions like the State and the Church; another group concentrated on the motives and incentives that induce men to work; another sought to discover the secret of political power; still another, an offspring like the rest of the old Philosophy, attempted to trace the laws of human thought. Now one of the results of this great modern tendency toward specialization has been, in regard to the Social Sciences, the creation as special educational disciplines of History, Economics, Government, and Psychology--these four--and a fifth, which aims at surveying society as a whole: Sociology. This...
...Edwards, the camera-man, took motion pictures of the masthead of the CRIMSON when Roosevelt was its president, pictures of his report on the paper, and of the Class Committee of which he was chairman. Besides telling the story of Roosevelt's life, the movie will trace the accomplishments of his ancestors...
Sever all Harvard organizations have recognized the possibilities of converting the Big tree pool to some useful function, but the University has been reluctant to part with so valuable an asset as this trace of land so close to the Yard represents. Lately it has been suggested, however, that the University permit the Harvard Dramatic club the use of the property. The club has never had a theatre of its own. Relying on the good will of the Pt Eta Club and the not too low rentals of Brattle Hall, it has been moving from one stage to another. Funds...
...will not be very much surprised by Playwright Davis' solution of the Langdons' situation, but Actress Wood's full-blown charm, tinged with a happy trace of quiet amusement at the part she is playing, should please. Hugh O'Connell, the droll one who cracked Indian nuts throughout Once in a Lifetime, demonstrates first-rate ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter...