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...recent pair of editorials entitled "Classical Doldrums" the Crimson has shown that it is not bound by the old prejudice that education should be founded primarily on a study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers. It echoes the modern glorification of the social sciences as the only valid approach to the problems of our day--an attitude which seems ridiculous to a person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...play-off meet with Princeton will be over 36 holes with individual and twosome low-ball matches. Because of their repeated success in teaming well together, Tony MacGowan and Ed Peterson will probably be the first pair; Little Jack Barr and Bob Sides, the second two-some; and Bill Cordingley and Bob Graves the third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLFERS TO PLAY FOR EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

Barr and Sides have yet to be defeated for the best ball in the two years they have played together, while the Sophomore pair of Cordingley and Graves played together all last year on the Yardling team. Henry Thompson is the other member of the squad who may play at Stamford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLFERS TO PLAY FOR EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...comedy class. Most ribald sequence, primed by Director George Stevens to go off in the Hays office's face, comes when Bridegroom Stewart tries to carry Bride Rogers over the threshold of a Pullman drawing room, to find it already occupied by a truculent, long wed pair of grumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...front cover of Eugene Young's new book is outlined a pair of scissors. These scissors have a double significance; they describe what has happened to most of the foreign news before it reaches the hands of Mr. Young in his capacity of Cable Editor of the New York Times, and also represent how the author has cut apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze...

Author: By J. G. P. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

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