Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These objections are all valid: the question is whether they are sufficiently weighty to over-balance the importance of the economic emergency that now exists. There is no reason why under proper management, the efficiency of student waiters cannot equal that of waitresses; and the employment of a large number of students would facilitate an interchange of hours during the examination period. As regards the social problems, a questionnaire distributed last year among student-waiters and prospective student-waiters, asking if they thought themselves regarded as inferior by other students was returned by more than half with an emphatic...
These, however, are defects which one must suppose the poet deliberately risked for the sake of his valid achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien...
...support have been exhausted is, particularly at Harvard, open to serious question. The possibilities of student waiters in the Houses have not been adequately explored. It has been commonly objected that such positions would result in inefficiency and in a fostering of class consciousness. Neither objection can be valid in the face of an emergency condition; the second is rather more respectable than the first, but it should not be too soft to expect that good breeding would rise soberly to the occasion. But even if such an introduction might increase the means of assistance at the college's disposal...
Last week New York tipped the national balance against "common law" marriages 2540-23 by legislating them out of existence. Governor Lehman signed a bill which decreed that hereafter no marriage within the State shall be valid unless solemnized by a clergyman or a civil officer. The measure does not disturb those already living in informal wedlock. Its advocates predicted that it would strip "golddiggers" of their strongest weapon in claiming a widow's right in a dead man's estate. Its opponents feared it would work hardship upon ignorant, simple women who thought they were getting married...
...inability of home owners and business men to secure the necessary money with which to meet their tax obligations, left no other course open for the governmental agencies than to reduce. The contention that the reduction in the cost of living justified such reductions appears a valid one. Yet, with a considerable increase in the cost of the necessaries of life, due to expansion, it would appear sound economics when such a situation has been developed to restore wages...