Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Over five hundred Yardlings expressed interest in social service work at registration, and, in reply, the Phillips Brooks House Committee has published a pamphlet featuring an article by Governor Saltonstall, to further explain social service work. About two hundred undergraduates were actively engaged in this work last year, and the Committee hopes to increase this number during the next few months...
...Defense for What, the HSU of 1939-40 has made its bid for survival in 1940-1941. The writer, who formerly regarded the HSU as the most appealing political group on the campus, feels called upon to explain a lack of sympathy with its present program. To begin with, it does not recognize the possibilities for, and the necessity of, any preparedness at this time. Furthermore, it prefers to stand outside the real politics of preparedness in order to sulk as an ineffective minority...
...made his second slip. Denouncing Mr. Roosevelt's capacity for handling foreign problems, he cried: "Was that an extraordinary demonstration of human knowledge . . . when he telephoned Hitler and Mussolini and urged them to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river?" Aides hastened to explain. Mr. Willkie had "misspoken," had meant to say that Mr. Roosevelt had urged a settlement at Munich and the Munich pact "agreed to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river...
...Irwin Ross '40, former editor of the Progressive. In an article entitled "The Tempest at Harvard" in the current Harper's he castigates President Conant's "administrative foibles" and adds "there appears no way to explain Conant's action other than to underscore the rigidity of his methods and presumably, his mind...
...Judge J.F. Rutherford's disciples hit Cambridge yesterday to explain to Harvard the message of Jehovah's witnesses. Although he was unable to get permission to canvass College dormitories, the "witness" cornered students on the Square, selling them pamphlets and telling them about Judge Rutherford's fifth column revelations...