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Surmounting this impressive barrier is undoubtedly what has given Templeton much of his musical sense of humor. Listen to the album of records which Gramaphone Shop of New York has done (Brigg's and McKenna's have them) and not only is there some excellent piano, but some of the wildest satire you've ever heard. The man deserves great credit, not only for having overcome a handicap, but for being an accomplished piano player (his latest trick being to play concertos after having heard them once), and for having carried on with a musical tongue in the check where...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...team in the form of Tony Mischo with 20 points was the only barrier which thwarted Wes Fesler's hoopmen from smashing a 35 year jinx Saturday night and handing Pennsylvania a defeat in their Palestra at Philadelphia. The Penn cagers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pucksters Beat Princeton as Quintet Loses to Penn | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism and Socialism. Using the pledge to uphold the Constitution as a convenient excuse, local authorities have time and time again made this law an effective barrier against teaching any theory or fact that might tend to alter the established order. Thus in practice the Teachers' Oath has proved a menace to the democratic system; and Harvard, as a liberal institution of learning, should actively support every effort to destroy this restriction upon intellectual liberty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Having hurdled its first barrier yesterday in the Committee on Education by a vote of 8 to 7, the bill meets its first crucial test in what Capitol observers feel will be the deciding test of strength between the opposing non-partisan factions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OATH BILL ADVOCATES GAIN BY REPEAL VOTE | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...presidents of M. I. T. Tufts, Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Smith were all communists was made by Henry J. Sullivan, philosopher, who said he had been "liquidated" by Harvard's President. Sullivan had asked for retention of the oath law on the grounds that it was an important barrier against the spread of "red" propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Refuses to Fight on Issue of Teachers' Oath Repeal | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

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