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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not." Say this sincerely, and feel it; and go out and play, or go to bed and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the method permanently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food and Other Subjects | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

University Professor I. A. Richards, who conducts Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Tutoring Firm Head Writes New Review Book | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Since all departments of the University use the College Library to some extent, President Conant added, half of the basic operating costs of the library will be paid out of the general funds of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts, Sciences Faculty Gets Control of College Library | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

Choice of Weapons. In Norfolk, Va., Court Clerk Betty Jean Woolard reported that a woman, told to wait an hour for a pistol permit, had flounced out saying: "No, that would be too late. I guess I'll have to use a knife after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Bender, who reported that he was once a Tribune newsboy, said that if Harvard had to be smeared, he was glad to have it done "by papers people have little use for." He disclosed that freshman enrollment from the Chicago area had increased this year despite the Tribune attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribune Reporter Returns to Hunt University 'Reds' | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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