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...chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence, to serve as "visiting professor" at U.C.L.A. (Because he is 78 and far past U.C.L.A.'s retirement age, Pound signed up only on a year-to-year basis.) With Pound's assistance, U.C.L.A. expects to make its law library "one of the finest and most complete on the coast -if not the nation...
Bingham's statement came in answer to the New York Herald Tribune reports that Howard (Jake) Cann, New York University coach, was "interested" in the Harvard job. Cann, after 26 years of coaching at NYU, is "dissatisfied with year-to-year contracts." He indicated that he was chiefly interested in getting a contract covering a longer period...
Yesterday's action came after Miss Heaton pointed out to Council that the committee has never had a permanent, year-to-year continuity. "I think every chairman for the past years has had to spend her first four months in office learning the basic working rules of the committee. They should really be known when she goes into office," she said...
...causes lie deeper than farming practices, he says. "Generally, when a rural population becomes poverty-stricken, it fails to maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return and those that maintain the soil...
Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken...