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...undergraduate Harvard now represents merely a means to becoming a gentleman, a trained scholar, or a business man with sufficient culture to make profitable use of his leisure time. Possibly there is no way in which this view can be changed, but this much is certain: without some tangible proof, it becomes increasingly difficult to convince today's college student that the "traditional education" is of value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE BALANCE | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...bring a conviction in a criminal court and Governor Roosevelt was not trying them like a criminal case. Rather were they charges of indiscretion and bad judgment indicative of a public and private carelessness about money and men. Taken together they created the impression of wrong-doing but legal proof was lacking of specific violations of the law. The Mayor was left looking morally shoddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: McKee for Walker | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...categorical objection" to any change in the Treaty of Versailles and signatory Britain took steps. At the Empire's grimy Foreign Office correspondents were negatively told that His Majesty's Government was not backing Germany in her demands on France. Paris newspapers, overjoyed, hailed this as proof that the Accord de Confiance quietly initialed by Prime Minister MacDonald and Premier Herriot at Lausanne (TIME. July 25) is a real entente which worked last week when tested in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uber Alles! | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...engineer. He would have all communities, nations, peoples methodically coordinated and controlled by boards of Eudemons (Great Engineers), who would see-as Aristotle advised-that every human led a happy life of action regulated by reason. Every inhabitant would do his proper share of work (the Soviet intention). For proof that Society could thus be run he suggested that Parliament should "found an experimental, voluntary, selfsupporting colony . . . of say 100,000 persons to maintain themselves and continually to increase their wealth when freed from the restraints and social errors of modern civilization." As a site for the experiment he suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: British Association Meet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...antiSemitism. Stanley High discovers many a religious angle to non-religious news items. In last week's broadcast he spoke of the Children's Bureau in Washington, of the low position of children in Rome in the 2nd Century, of Sunday School as a "depression-proof institution." Pope Pius XI's plans to build more churches in Rome led Dr. High to consider the Pope's achievements, the Vatican art collection, U. S. S. R.'s treatment of religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: High on the Air | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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