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Coming here from the New York Public Library, Metcalf was visibly dismayed by the complexity of the Harvard College Library, which numbers almost 80 libraries of varying size and scope, and announced that he would spend the first half-year studying the organization of the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Library Director to Coordinate 80 Separate Units in the University | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...abolition of the present method of selecting the Freshman Union Committee on the ground that is an undemocratic designation of student officials, and further, it is inadequate in scope to accomplish the many tasks open to such a group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

Week, they approached Los Angeles broadcasting stations suggesting programs of MacDowell's music. Every Los Angeles station cooperated enthusiastically. The following year the two colleagues broadened the scope of their festival, enlisted National Broadcasting Co., Columbia Broadcasting System and nearly 60 independent stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: MacDowell Colony | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Herbert Lehman. A principal speaker at New York City's Jackson Day dinner -from which, to increase the scope of the fiesta, Postmaster General James A. Farley introduced the President to his radio audience-was New York's Governor Herbert Lehman. Considerably farther removed from the New Deal than he was before he objected to the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last summer, Governor Lehman delivered a speech which, in the oratorical chorus, represented counterpoint rather than close harmony. Its strongest note: "A political party, like government itself, must be the servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Deal Chorus | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

When students participate in controversial issues, a minority group may tie the hands of the majority by unwise actions which compromise the organization as a whole, and limit the scope of its effectiveness and growth. It is to be hoped that Student Union "action" will be diverted into fields of intellectual leadership, with much intelligent, academic, and practical thinking applied to the problems of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINDMILL JOUSTING | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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