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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to recently released figures. Harvard ranks twelfth in the country as far as the number of full-time students is concerned, and twentieth in the number of all resident students. Outclassed by California, Columbia, Minnesota, Illinois, New York U., Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, U. of Washington, Texas, and C. C. N. Y., Harvard has a measly 8,111 full-timers compared with California's 22,122, and Columbia's 14,662. In the whole country, there are 146,224 full-time students, and 1,140,786 resident students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Figures | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

...would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...large child actor population for an all-star effort, possibly on the lines of Grand Hotel in a day nursery, there is no chance for new discoveries in the well-explored terrain of plots for such performers. Central figures of both RKO's Rainbow on the River and Twentieth Century-Fox's Stowaway are, as usual, waifs doing as much good for themselves as possible and struggling hard to keep out of the orphanage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Banjo On My Knee (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, in a completely unpretentious fashion, a new kind of picture. It is a folk story about a group of Mississippi islanders so isolated that they regard land folk as belonging to another race, hold to the belief that "if God had intended people to live in towns He would have created towns the same way He made rocks and trees." The folk story elements are as authentically saturated with mood as though this were serious drama instead of a light cinema with warmish music. What is most original about Banjo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors and executives were jolted out of their complacency by the realization that "a pogrom could actually occur in a highly civilized country in the Twentieth Century." To study anti-Semitism at work, and write a book about it, he went to Germany, which left him still puzzled so he went on to Poland, then to Palestine, to Soviet Russia. He wound up with a mass of information, a collection of good photographs, a few good anecdotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vicious Circle | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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