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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on to explain that the group would go to almost any extreme to change certain very obnoxious traits, always associated with Radcliffe girls, the most obnoxious being the "Radcliffe Walk." "If we can eliminate that factor from the campus and also make most of the girls realize the value of always looking presentable, then I feel that we will be able to disband with a clear conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Form Novel Club And Date Bureau | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...taking a date to the Penn game this Saturday you will probably have to walk into the stadium to a pair of seats somewhere between the goal line and the 15 yard stripe. Don't be embarrassed about it though, because almost every other Harvard man taking a girl to the game is in the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Taking Dates to Penn Game Will Occupy Seats Near Goal-Lines | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

When he goes home at night to his Elizabethan house in swank Palmer Woods, he likes to stay there and read (history and biography) and before bedtime to go for a walk. Sometimes on his walks he meets husky President Bill Knudsen of General Motors or Director Pete Martin of Ford, both neighbors, but he seldom sees them otherwise. He is too busy and so are they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does not fit our own pattern of ethics...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...have made Chancellor Bow man one of the most talked-about U. S. educators: his football team and his (still unfinished) 42-story Cathedral of Learning, which he has been building these 18 years. To picture this cathedral to the architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors blacklisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boot for Bowman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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