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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since the classics are studied chronologically and the first class under the New Program enrolled in the Fall of 1937, the Juniors are now reading such authors as Machiavelli, Pascal, Montesquien, Grotius, Kant, Peacock, Boole, Boyle, Leignez, and Lavoisier. They fall in the three categories of Languages and Literature, Liberal Arts, and Mathematics and Science...
...notable gifts to the nation: 1) Woodrow Wilson, 2) the Veterans of Future Wars. The V.F.W. was an inspired outfit which advocated immediate payment of a $1,000 cash bonus to every U. S. citizen who might some day serve in a foreign war (TIME, March 30, 1936). Last fall, with World War II at hand, a prepayment bonus not quite in sight, eight Princetonians formed another society concerned with war: the In & Out Club. They dedicated their new club to pleasurable, social pursuits, pending a U. S. act of war. Chief In: begoggled New Yorker Albert Joseph Parreno...
...Steel's 55% break-even rate. A whacking slice of production, percentagewise, was still going into already bulky inventory. The story of the situation was written in the price of steel scrap, down to $16.50 a ton (the pre-war level). Worst of all: after a good fall, Steel's biggest customer, the auto industry, was running into signs of a production slump which, if it materializes, will slow down the consumption of steel inventories at auto plants...
...National Council of the Episcopal Church three years ago sent tall, bustling Rev. Henry B. Thomas, a onetime chaplain at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Thomas took over St. Stephen's House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...
Near Centralia, Wash., in the fall of 1917, while the rest of the U. S. was busy with World War I, a hunter bagged some pheasants which he wanted to keep for his Christmas dinner. As an accommodation, an ice-plant operator named J. A. Winchell plunked the birds into a water-filled milk can, froze them in a solid ice cake. On Christmas Day the frozen fowl came out of the ice cake fresh...