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...undergraduate organizations, publications, and teams to display posters on the bulletin boards of the Houses and University buildings advertising their competitions and their wares. In the past these posters have dealt with some sort of business, but last week there blossomed out a set of posters advertising a social function for Freshmen candidates: a rum punch. Despite the fact that rum punches are one of the choicest methods of spending a few hours, the public attempt to lure Freshmen to extra-curricular activities by such means is likely to be deceptive to the Freshman and certainly does not shed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKING TO DRINK | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe is inevitable within two years unless selfish nationalists give international trade a chance to function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Trade v. Inflation | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs of a respiratory function of the digestive tract of some vertebrae. There is sufficient evidence as to the possibility of utilizing oxygen in the digestive tract. There are known cases (testified by medical observation) of life during 'several hours of the infants, whose lungs on post-mortem examination were found to be absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Rays in Chicago | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Recruiting for brains is one thing. Recruiting for the band or the football team or for the advertisement of the college is quite another. When the work of a college representative in the field is honest, when it is guidance, and not exploitation, he has a useful function to perform. But the evidence is plain, beyound dispute--only too often has recruiting degenerated into attempts to fill the beds in the dormitories by any means, fair or foul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John R. Tunis Claims in Scribners Article That Many Small Colleges Shanghai Students to Fill Halls | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

...nation's 800,000 Government employes. To the N. F. F. E. delegates President Roosevelt dispatched a message, conceding the place of Government unions in the U. S. Labor picture but sternly warning: "Militant tactics have no place in the function of an organization of Government employes. . . . Such action looking forward to the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Unthinkable, Intolerable | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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