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...Then it is a "punishable neglect" for leaders not to control war-agitating newspapers, and disturbing to recall ambassadors "without any reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adolf to Franklin | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...concerts really do not receive the attention they merit. There is plenty of room for reform in the concert-planing of most musicians, but even a large part of that music which is receiving attention from musicians is comparatively unknown to the average layman, and as long as we neglect the small-scale idioms were are missing some of the most delightful experiences which music has to offer...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...Greek by the Classical Club, the fast and witty dialogue failed to draw any audience reaction except from the most learned professors in the front rows. The biting satire, so pertinent to the world today, was completely lost on the undergraduates. Here is a sad commentary on the neglect of the classics while the social sciences here at Harvard are flooded with more students than they can handle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Main breeders of U. S. harlotry (and main subject of Designs in Scarlet) are Dine & Dance joints, liquor, tourist camps, obscenity peddlers. Author Cooper does not, however, neglect organized brothels nor the many ramifications of his subject-camp followers of the WPA, sex degeneracy, and worse. As in his previous crime writings (Here's To Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Slavery | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, stated strongly that a good course in biology ought to be included in the education of every college student. "Man is an animal and ought to know himself and his fellow animals--inferiors or superiors. The neglect of biology in education seems to me one of the most fundamental errors committed by unenlightened pedagogues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL FRESHMEN URGED TO TAKE ONE SCIENCE | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

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