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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two years, but ten percent of the gifts Harvard has received have been unrestricted grants which the University may use as it sees fit. Moreover, the percentage of such gifts shows a declining trend. This is in spite of the fact that many of President Conant's speeches and reports have echoed eloquently the plea for fluid funds. Either because Harvard's benefactors are of an unimpressionable nature, or because they fail to read the President's speeches, the University finds itself tied and thwarted on every hand, with its efficiency gravely impaired...
Today in a typical Progressive school, children call their teachers by their first names, treat them as friends instead of masters. In place of fixed desks and seats are chairs, workbenches. Instead of textbooks, pupils use newspapers, magazines, reference books, observation trips. Instead of studying subjects in separate capsules, as reading, spelling, arithmetic, they have projects...
...States as effective.* Among the most thoroughgoing is a New York law which requires physical examinations as well as Wassermann or Kahn tests for syphilis from all prospective brides and grooms. Tests for gonorrhea are not required, since they are not yet reliable or practical enough for large-scale use...
...hand on the New Deal thesis that existing patent laws foster monopoly. Intervening in a Supreme Court patent-violation suit against General Talking Pictures Corp. by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Department of Justice contended that "public policy cannot tolerate the extension of the patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
...properties, its biggest public-utility investment in which it has an equity of some $27,000,000; 2) Commonwealth & Southern is rebuilding its system in the North precisely according to SEC demands; 3) two of the country's largest holding companies have decided there is no longer any use fighting the New Deal's utility reform...