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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. is now a primary† need to the well-being and progress of U. S. workers...
...this should be the result of the negotiations now in progress between the Administration and various departments. More specifically, the English and Government Departments should request that they be granted more associate professorships--to be filled by the men in question. If the Administration does not see eye to eye with the departments on what the necessary "exceptional circumstances" are, they have the right to bring the matter up before the whole faculty...
...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
...produce informally for their own practice and self-criticism. Another course, devoted to acting, might correlate all the odds and ends of drama now spread over the English Department. A third, given by the Fine Arts Department, would concentrate on design and technique for actual production. With such progress under its belt, Harvard could atone for the past, not by waiting for a financial "angel" but by announcing that the foundation for a complete School of Dramatic Arts was at last ready. Ignored three times, alumni might yet rejoice that Harvard had cast off prejudice and would contribute...
...upon the discovery of Thomas H. Ham, assistant in Medicine, and William B. Castle '17, professor of Medicine, that most forms of anemia result from stagnation of the blood within the blood vessels, Dr. William P. Murphy, associate in Medicine, admitted last night that he has recently made "considerable progress" in perfecting the remedy for anemia...