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...mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...three-month curriculum, as described by General Lear: 1) geography and the rudiments of international trade as affecting this nation; 2) history of the United States and the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine; 3) the Constitution and the background of man's struggle for liberty (this phase will give the historical background of democracy, with particular emphasis on the growth of constitutional government. Object: to bring home the personal meaning of the guarantees of the Constitution and a soldier's responsibility toward the maintenance of that bulwark of free men.); 4) contrasting political systems: a discussion on Nazi...
Said a none-too-sanguine statement last week from Episcopal national headquarters urging greater church attendance on Thanksgiving: "The historical background of the day is religious, but the American people have come to observe it as a day of feasting and play." Novelist Fannie Hurst once put it more pungently: "As the American moves farther and farther away from the soil, the reality of Thanksgiving fades into a pale symbol buried beneath an elaborate ceremonial of gastronomies...
Bryn Mawr girls went to classes and lectures with Haverford boys, and vice versa. Sample class: a seminar on the background of the next peace, with two Haverford boys and six Bryn Mawr girls, meeting sometimes at Haverford, sometimes at Bryn Mawr. The three colleges jointly hired a Peruvian to teach South American history...
...about eight days every year, the football Saturdays of the fall, the whole tribe of them give up this Eastern tomfoolery and revert to their true Middlewestern background. For deep in the heart of every honest product of the states between the western Pennsylvania border and the eastern Colorado line lies a loyalty to his own local football aggregation, a loyalty that transcends any artificial enthusiasm he may have worked up for Harvard during his undergraduate career...