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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing this action, the Council stated that "The Committee is to ascertain the opinion of both undergraduates and graduates concerning the Department, to discuss its general educational policy with particular attention to the emphasis on the historical approach to art as opposed to actual creative art, and to examine the positions of comparable departments in various other colleges and universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Chooses Committee to Survey Policies of Department of Fine Arts | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...known how to learn something if there is no course on the subject. If one has any deep desire to get a well-grounded view of marriage he could get reading recommendations from a tutor in Sociology or a Sociology concentrator. There are a few recent books which discuss the subject as would be done in an undergraduate course and two or three of these are adequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...noted actor went on to discuss the difference between the stage and radio from a thespian's standpoint. Pointing out that broadcasting makes for a purer art of the theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orson Welles Says "Five Kings" Is Return to True Shakespearian Form | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Washington to discuss trade, money, Dictators and armaments was Brazil's Foreign Minister, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, onetime (1934-38) Ambassador to the U. S. Secretary Hull had a bug, too, but omnipresent Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles took good care of Dr. Aranha. The Navy's impending war game emphasized Brazil's importance in a war involving "hemisphere defense" (see p. 12), and Dr. Aranha stated that in any "international civil war," Brazil would be on the U. S. side, "Absolutely!" His major contribution to U. S. news columns was that the "old" Germans in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Flu & a Fit | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply: "One must perforce accept the inevitable. . . . There is nothing I can do but to accede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Rocket & Flowerpots | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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