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The Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERMINOLOGICAL MONSTERS | 2/23/1935 | See Source »

When dollar diplomacy and the white man's burden led us to take the far-flung Philippines to our bosom there was considerable doubt whether the Constitution followed the flag. Mr. Dooley was asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GOLD DECISIONS | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

Well-meaning though the Legion of Decency may be, like all other prohibitive institutions it places too great a weapon in the hands of prejudice. After all that had been said of the O'Casey play it seems rather a pity that one man, and it really was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Sweeping economics have been made, we are informed by the Business Administrator. The general consensus of student opinion finds an unfortunate double meaning in the word, sweeping. With unparalled efficiency, the officials ordain that each goodie shall have twelve of fourteen suites to clean and a maximum of fifteen minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEEPING ECONOMY | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

(and perhaps Messrs. Woollcott and Williams too) seemed to indicate. It is the theme of The Fatal Curiosity, by George Lillo, first acted in London in 1736. The plot is the same as in the later versions. The son returns, meaning to surprise his parents; they murder him, discovering just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1935 | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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