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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some really good bands. Red Nichols is there now...The Roseland State right around the corner, will continue to bring in big names. But their poster advertising is so poor that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music rather than Ruby Newman . . . At this writing, the Little Harlem, colored dine and dance spot right near the Raymor...
...Dean's Office should now be able to collect supplementary information on candidates for promotion. It should be able to obtain unbiased, expert appraisal of their publications. And, perhaps most important of all, it may have the chance of knowing personally the men in various departments. In a word, the Dean's Office should become, as the Committee hoped it would, "a centralized file for personnel records...
While repentant WMCA was still standing in the corner, NBC last week also had a transgression to worry over. It had broadcast word of the departure (also blazoned in the press) of the French liner "Champlain, and had sent the news out over international short-wave in several languages, including one which might be understood by any submariner now in business. At week's end the Champlain was reported to have reached an unrevealed haven, and NBC mightily relieved, resolved henceforth to keep such marine intelligence off the air entirely, regardless of how the press treated...
Most of the 2,500,000 children in U. S. Catholic parochial schools get an old-fashioned schooling, and most Catholic educators have no kind word for progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent...
...Harvard Columbus Expedition to retrace the voyages of Christopher Columbus will continue its scheduled itinerary despite the European War, according to word received from Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History and head of the expedition, today. The destinations of the expedition are in neutral countries...