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...many undergraduates the function of public speaking is considered confined to a certain small group of students who enjoy talking in general and the public eye in particular. And yet it is a mistake for educated men to begin life in the world beyond the University without being versed in the simple laws of speaking. This course, though labelled Public Speaking, is not intended to train men to be future Websters, Henrys, or Sewards The training of the course affords students who can face a group of persons without embarrassment, and present information that is clearly thought...
...excess profits tax ceases to function for the taxable year following that in which Repeal occurs. Thus if, for example, the President proclaims Repeal Dec. 13. 1933 (the week after the ratification convention of the 36th State), corporations will pay on their 1933 excess profits on March 15, 1934 and no more thereafter. But if Repeal does not come until Jan. 5, 1934, corporations will have to pay excess profits taxes for 1934 on March 15, 1935. Most corporate taxpayers were ready last week to gamble on Repeal during...
Benito Mussolini has woman's role in Fascist Italy all figured out. To teach it to Italian women is the chief function of the women's section of the Fascist Party, the Fasci Femminili (Women's Groups). Its presidency is Italy's top political job for women. Last week Mussolini gave the Fasci Femminili a new president: Countess Bianca Pio di Savoia...
...addition to the valuable and essential function of education which the Summer School performs, it provides another service certainly less essential but as prominent for those who for some reason or other spend their vacation at Harvard. It is well known that during July and August the Yard becomes a very happy hunting ground for local Dianas and it is common knowledge that their presence makes it a watering-place for willing prey. Fun and games relieve the long six-week term for some, and probably account for the greater popularity of co-educational summer sessions...
...attempt will be made to cover the amazing discoveries which have given chemistry such an important industrial function to perform in the last hundred years. Non-technical terms will be used so that a knowledge of the subject is not indispensable for enjoying the lecture...