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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON of April 27. The dean continued, "I am in thorough agreement with the general opinion expressed in the editorials that outside tutoring at Har- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanford Hits Tutoring Schools As Bad Influence on College in Statement on Return From Trip | 5/10/1939 | See Source »

...groups are interested in making a greater contribution to music at Harvard they could do so by giving a few free, informal performances here during the year. The Yard Concerts are the nearest approach we have to a close relationship between extra-curricular music and the College as a whole, and there is no apparent reason why their principle could not be applied more freely...

Author: By S. C. Holvick, | Title: The Music Box | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Requested to explain cosmic rays in a five-minute speech at the New York World's Fair illumination ceremony, Physicist Albert Einstein objected strenuously that a whole volume would not be enough, finally made a stab at it in 700 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Hollywood Theatre last week, C. I. O.'s John Llewellyn Lewis showed up in a starched shirt. Before the picture started, everyone stood for The Star-Spangled Banner.* Both tributes were fitting, for Juárez is the most political and patriotic canto in the whole Warner cycle of epic biography. Produced at a cost of $2,000,000, over a period of two years, with the services of six Academy Award winners and a cast of 1,188, it is not only the most ambitious production in Warner history but by all odds the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...hundred years ago, when Nathaniel Hawthorne was living in Salem, he jotted in his notebook an idea for a story: "To write a dream which shall resemble the real course of a dream, with all its inconsistency, its strange transformations . . . with nevertheless a leading idea running through the whole. Up to this old age of the world, no such thing has ever been written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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