Word: tryed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord of a funny old palace on the shore of the Mediterranean at Portofino, Italy...
...torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might reply: easier said than done. Not all the conviction in the world will make propaganda into art. But Author Kataev can fill his own bill. Time, Forward!, a novel about concrete mixing...
Harvard has had only a fair season this year. The team defeated Holy Cross 19-36, and placed second to New Hampshire in the tri-meet with Dartmouth...
...same time as the Varsity race, the Harvard Freshmen will match the Yale and Princeton cubs in another tri-meet. The Harvard first year men have had a successful season so far, defeating Holy Cross 20-35, and New Hampshire 18-37. They are expected to beat Princeton for the championship in a close race. Princeton 1937 has won a meet from Lafayette 20-35, and has defeated the Columbia Freshmen 22-33. The Yale Freshman team has not competed in any races this year, and little is known of its power. Captain Joseph G. Duchesne, Paul V. Harper...
...improved by a reduction in the number of lectures and by an increase in reading lists. It was proposed that fifteen lectures, delivered during the closing weeks of the term would serve a double purpose: such a system would relieve professors of the onus which attends bi- and tri-weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education...