Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...General Laws are being violated by the Russell contract. Citing a decision handed down by the eminent Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts in the case of Sherman v. Inhabitants of Charlestown in which a 17 year old girl was barred from the public schools because of her moral background, Dorgan points out that the case is not only applicable to teachers as well as to students but that it also applies to Harvard as well as to the public schools...
...dormousy Edward Pountney, was in court to defend the suit. He pleaded "fair comment" under the British Press Law, but no sooner had the trial started than it became obvious that the T. U. C. leaders were determined to expose what they claimed was the Worker's Muscovite background. Sir Walter testified that in the first fortnight of the war the Worker suddenly changed its policy of supporting Labor against Hitlerism, began calling the war imperialistic. Who ordered the change? "Moscow," said Sir Walter Citrine. Who financed the Worker to the tune of ?2,000 a month? "Moscow," said...
...article, written by Donald McD. D. Thurber '40, is based on an exhaustive questionnaire distributed to all Seniors and answered by 619 members of the Class of 1940. Sandwiched in among questions about the political views and family background of Seniors were two questions which dealt with sex, but the answers to these will not appear in the Album...
Pottinger's subject will be "Making the Bay Psalm Book," while Miller, whose "New England Mind in the Seventeenth Century" was published recently, will speak on "The Religious Background of the Bay Psalm Book...
Second prize has ben given to Julian 10. Agoos '40, whose picture of "Column," a young boy, is notable for its clarity and realism. "Boulder Dam," showing the white concrete contrasted with the rugged mountains in the background, has won third prize for John B. Breed...