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...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Magnificent Sir | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Discussion centered about proposed changes in parietal rules now in effect regarding the entertaining of women in students' rooms. A comparison of parietal rules at Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Harvard was made, but the Graduate Council did not make a final decision as to what it would recommend in its report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Council Hits Impasse Over Parking | 1/10/1950 | See Source »

...dwarfed by that of a Walter Winchell Sunday broadcast, it still represents a multitude of listeners. Surveys have indicated that the audience varies between 800,000 and 3,000,000. To Educator Lyman Bryson, a frequent panel member, this is heartening proof that "the audience, although small in comparison with big-time entertainment audiences, is still a multitude ... It is still big enough to show that discussions of Spinoza and Plato and Melville and Fielding and Locke and Shelley and Confucius and Racine and the Bhagavad-Gita are suitable for a mass medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 69th Most Popular | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, the Library owes much of its up-to-dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Holiday Affair (RKO Radio) is an unlikely but likable little romantic comedy adroitly warmed with Christmas sentiment. It confronts a confused young war widow (Janet Leigh), working as a department store comparison shopper in the holiday rush, with a choice of two suitors: a safe & sound lawyer (Wendell Corey) who has wooed her for two years, and a happy-go-lucky toy clerk (Robert Mitchum) who tries to win her in a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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