Word: unis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...
William P. Rockwell '35 will offer an exhibition of Uni. cycling and will do a juggling act. Several numbers will be played by the guitar quartet, which consists of Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36, and Daniel T. V. Huntoon '35. After the program the Gold Coast Orchestra will play at a dance...
...Velz rushed off to the U. S. consulate in Berlin, swore to the facts of his bashing and waited to see what action would be taken by that detached, God-fearing Baptist, U. S. Ambassador William Edward Dodd. Contemplative Professor Dodd has written for a recent issue of The Uni-versity of Chicago Magazine a characteristic piece headed "The Education of an Ambassador." "Into this quiet life," he writes, "came the call of President Roosevelt of June 8 to go as envoy to Germany in the hope of improving the relations of the two countries. I hesitated and took counsel...
This year Democrats naturally lead. Because of "pressure of affairs" President Roosevelt declined a Rutgers LL.D. but last week Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Perkins and Woodin had time to receive degrees (see below), the last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker...
...despite his insight into conditions, he declares: "I feel no call to remedy evils. I have not the slightest urge to be a reformer. Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate professor of government to Columbia Uni- versity where he had got his Ph.D. five years before. In 1928 he was made a professor of public law. To the girls of Barnard College he taught government and politics in a humorous, informal way that charmed most of them. They also liked his after-class teas...