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...great industrialists of the U. S. today favor the idea. Some have their fingers crossed about the form such plans may take, but all know how badly industry needs workers' purchasing power in times of unemployment, how much relief for the unemployed costs. If there was any complaint about the President's instructions last week it came from those who were disappointed at his apparent caution in not sweeping more boldly into this new field of social services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICES: Breaking Soil | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...champions of this cause seem to heed the repeated complaint that men laboriously eking out their tuition and living are not really deriving any advantage from their studies. Without denying the value of university training, an observer might doubt whether it is of any worth to those who must endure privation and exhaustion to secure it. Wearied by part-time jobs, their hours for study limited, these people are hardly in a position to enjoy the intellectual and social advantages of college. Their frequently inferior work tends to degrade the standard of teaching, and save for a few superior individuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERFERA | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...even Mr. Wade himself is inclined to criticize the Critic as a magazine. His real complaint seems to be that the men who revived it are merely providing a duplicate service with the Advocate and are unfair in ignoring the Advocate in their statement of policy. This is after all rather a weak line of argument. For clearly the Advocate is not even distantly related to the Critic in either content or policy. Anyone who will take the trouble to examine the Advocate for the last two years will see almost at a glance that no matter what its stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Critic Retorts | 11/7/1934 | See Source »

...cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Churches | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...functions have been neglected during the current season. Failure to announce the Leverett-Adams game almost caused postponement because of lack of men. Men who have been taken out of the scrimmages have been compelled to sit on the sidelines without blankets or hoods. There has been a general complaint against the lack of systematic announcement of games on the house bulletin boards, it is unfair to criticize Mr. Samborski on these scores. As Director of Intra-Mural Athletica his enthusiasm and executive ability have been the leading causes of the success of the inter-house program. But he cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANAGER WANTED | 10/26/1934 | See Source »

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