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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs more--in some cases better--teachers. President Eliot once said that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSONALITY AND OR SCHOLARSHIP | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Bill Bingham was not a ringer. He and Charley Brickley opened and operated a student laundry of the type found in many small colleges. Initiative and industry along proper channels will never be questioned; Bingham had both and successfully worked his way through Harvard in this manner...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...sunk by a German mine outside it. Then it was closed by mines, as it doubtless is again this time. Hoxa Sound on the south is the deepest and widest approach. Here are a "boom" and submarine net barrier* as well as hundreds of mines, doubtless of the controlled type operable by electric switch ashore. Infrared "electric eye" detectors for surface craft are also believed installed at Hoy and Hoxa. To pick his way through such barriers, Prien would have needed a map furnished either by spies or by aerial reconnaissance cameras. Another theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...fact that Count Basic, considered by most critics to be the greatest of the colored style bands, has a band of men who grew up in Kansas City and have played together for about ten years; and that Bob Crosby, admitted to be the best of the Dixieland type jazz, has a band made up in large part of men who hail from New Orleans, where all this fuss called jazz really got started...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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