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...Rowe '27, coach of the team, announced last night that the judges would be R. B. Eastman, Boston banker, W. A. Macdonald, special editor of the Boston Transcript, and A. L. Moore, Cambridge lawyer, with P. C. Reardon '32, as chairman. Reardon, a former president of the Debating Council and winner of the Coolidge Prize two years ago, will announce this year's recipient of the prize at the meeting tonight...
President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference will be kept, said the President, because he does not want to revive the "Ananias Club." as Theodore Roosevelt called White House visitors whom he had to turnquote...
...This group will work in cooperation with the Executive Committee and will consist of Harvard alumul well known in theatrical circles. The members of this new committee are: Donald Oenslager '23, New York scenic designer; J. M. Brown '23, dramatic critic; H. T. Parker '39, dramatic critic of the Transcript, E. P. Goodnow '17, head of the Stagers organization at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston, and F. R. Hart '27, graduate treasurer...
However, the most beautiful result of the innovation would be its automatic nature. As the Transcript expresses it, in terse and simple periods: "A faithful reproduction of the body structure . . . would bring automatic corrections . . . thus freeing the brains of the populace from the details of bare existence and opening up wider fields for adventure and achievement." Certain difficulties arise, of course, when the economic system is made too nearly like the body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should...
...trouble which can be caused by legacies with strings attached to them is illustrated rather more amusingly than usual in last night's Transcript. The inspiration for the article in question is the state of affairs in Widener Library. Here, it appears, there is a considerable sum of money set aside for the purchase of books in French, dealing with the exact sciences, and nothing else. There are also funds for the acquisition of books on Siam, California, and for volumes once owned by Coleridge, and annotated by him. This money can not be spent for anything other than...