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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...articles, six of which ought to be of special interest to socially aware undergraduates all over the country. The other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Tutoring Status By DepartmentsDepartment General Tutorial Offerings CommentAnthropology Honors Juniors and Seniors NoneArchitectural Sciences Questionnaire not yet receivedAstronomy Questionnaire not yet receivedBiology None Gradual loss of younger men has resulted in "a natural death"Biochemistry Honors Juniors and Seniors Tutorial valuable for superior students, probably not for inferior onesChemistry None Compact course integration, and lab hours do work of tutorialClassics To Half of concentrators Favor unlimited tutorialComparative Philology No regular tutorial Tutorial help given "as an extra" in small departmentEconomics None Will reconsider tutorial next yearEngineering Sciences None Lab work sufficesEnglish Groups I, II, and III No increase plannedFar Eastern...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Unlimited Tutorial Is Dying in Most Departments, Crimson Poll Reveals | 4/9/1947 | See Source »

...happy; of the parents of three or more children, 71% were happy. It is clear that happiness increases with the number of children. . . . Most couples who go into the divorce court are childless. No one can escape the conclusion that the divorced population represents to some extent a biologically inferior part of the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vanishing Family | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers of fiction? The simplest answer is that for all his abilities he was incurably sentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yay, Penrod | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Sparked by Bill Brady and Bill Holt, who tallied 19 and 11 points respectively, the Jayvee basketball quintet whipped an inferior but scrappy Gordon College of Theology five at Thomas High School last night by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Quintet Beats Gordon College, 72-38 | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

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