Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three general questions before the League take on greater importance in view of these new events. France's sudden reappearance in the headlines, making rebel victory even more likely, will give the committee discussing the Spanish situation opportunity to state a more definite policy...
...Fogg Museum there is on view a showing of landscapes in prints covering five centuries. Landscapes have always been closely associated with prints and have given an incentive to the most varied techniques and talents...
Higher Learning. Most newsworthy speech on the superintendent's formal program was made by Harvard's youthful President James Bryant Conant. Observing that the number of students in U. S. professional schools might well be reduced, President Conant challenged the view that students are better off if they stay in school and study for an overcrowded profession than if they leave school and become unemployed. Said he, "The existence of any large number of highly educated individuals whose ambitions have been frustrated is unhealthy for any nation...
...emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad land grants that his legislative activities were notorious even...
...growing success of Harvard's two new major sports, basketball and swimming, particularly from the point of view of team spirit, have made the undergraduates acutely conscious that two other major sports have suffered by contrast. In both of these other two, hockey and baseball, there exists a coaching problem...