Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the new conditions is long. It cannot be traversed in one year or in two years. On the contrary, there is an almost endless course of adjustment and evolution to be pursued, and Mr. Lowell, as a pioneer, has a strong and purposeful hand at the plow. --Boston Transcript...
Last evening's Transcript states that, contrary to expectation, there is virtually no decrease in the enrollment of the principal New England colleges. At Harvard, men have come as before, and they have come prepared to spend as before. There has been only a minor decrease in the average standard of living. The storekeepers of Harvard Square are not facing the bleak winter of their colleagues in Boston. For example, one of the music stores reports that its sales of expensive phonograph records is nearly as great as ever, the radio notwithstanding. Men may buy more circumspectly, but still they...
...than ever of late; for in these times when technically-trained specialists are finding but few positions and men from liberal-arts colleges are driven to selling bath-brushes from door to door, reassuring words regarding the practical value of the classics are apt to be welcome. The last "Transcript" carries the story of Professor Julian Taylor, who has taught Latin at Colby continuously for sixty-three years. A scholar of the old sort who has been to a remarkable degree a friend of four thousand alumni now living, he reiterates the encouraging arguments that most men hear when they...
When this fact leaked to the Press, as it did immediately, correspondents marched in to see Private Secretary Theodore Joslin, oldtime Boston Transcript correspondent. They demanded an expla nation. Yes, declared Secretary Joslin, the investigation was on. The President was disturbed at 15 news leaks within the past few weeks. Hereafter on the President's orders White House news would come only from "authorized official sources"- that is, the President or Secretary Joslin. That, retorted 'the newsmen, constituted censorship...
When the New York Herald Tribune commented fortnight ago upon the failure of Manhattan's Noise Abatement Commission to produce a noiseless ashcan, its editorial was headlined, Ellis Parker Butler-wise: "Ashcans Is Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...