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The CRIMSON has always advertised its competitions as the hardest form of extra-curricular activity available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CALLS 1931 TOMORROW | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

On his departure Charles Darwin was still convinced of the immutability of species. He had read the fabulous evolutionary theories of Lamarck, based on the "longing" of species to change or improve. These he considered, as did most other repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Darwin | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

It has been pointed out that the Reading Periods constitute a rest for tutors as well as instructors. Professor Tatlock's plan of a previous tutorial vacation would obviate this objection. And even without that provision an optional conference with one's tutor would not burden him with even half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRITICAL PERIOD | 11/26/1927 | See Source »

On the problem of selecting men worthy of entrance into college the Amherst president has taken a well-defined stand. Harvard determined the members of the class of 1931 in the recognition that the cumulative weight of scholastic attainment was not the only one to be placed in the scales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CORROBORATIONS | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

But Miss Hampton, the plot and the jokes are not really important. The things that matter are the music by Sigmund Romberg,† and the ensemble singing. These factors measure up to the most rigorous standard of recent large scale, light opera in the Shubert manner. Contented patrons of The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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