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...satisfy both the more and less advanced students. Moreover, the German sections would provide at least one regular undergraduate course conducted completely in German, of which there is none now. The English sections would stimulate the student who reads the language but does not understand spoken German rather than bore him the way the present translation courses do. They acquaint him with all the masterpieces of German literature and their influence rather than hold him responsible for meticulous translation of the works of a few authors. There are certainly men in the department at present able to conduct the course...
...recent "Radio Trial" in Moscow, Professor Leonid Ramzin and the other "counter revolutionaries" who confessed by the hour bore no marks of torture whatever and were certainly in possession of both hands. The power of the G. P. U. lies less in horror than in the infinite ramifications of its net of spies. Fathers and mothers can scarcely be sure that their own children, rosy-cheeked "Young Pioneers," are not household spies whose babbling to an older child will reach the G. P. U. If President Hoover knew as much about every U. S. citizen as Dictator Stalin knows...
Explaining why the Post Office Department could not follow its intention of issuing stamps illustrating George Washington at significant stages in his life (in connection with the 200th birthday anniversary celebration), Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown said: "The collected portraits of Washington bore too little family resemblance. One of them looked like John Jacob Raskob...
...Lawyer Kresel still holds the headlines and double columns of the press. Yesterday's type, however, bore a slightly different tune, that of the prosecutor pleading "not guilty" to charges of misappropriating funds of a now deceased bank. And as Mr. Kresel was formally indicated with promises of a speedy trial, the baited judiciary may have relaxed...
...team began its winter season last week by winning the foils, epee, and saber events of the annual Amateur Fencers League of America prize tournament. In the first of these events B. B. Wesselman '31, H.C. Cassidy '31, and J.D. Allen, Jr., '31, bore off the first, second, and third prizes, respectively, and tied for first place in number of the victories won. In the epee, K. R. Ludlam '33 was the winner while R. B. Lawson '32 was awarded the first prize in the saber, third place falling to H. B. Walker '33. The Harvard entrants scored their wins...