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...thoughtless word, though off-hand and unintentional, may convince an undergraduate that the heart of University Hall is black and malign. But, given a man with an attractive personality and the ability to manage people, the opportunities of assistant deans for influence in the educational world are infinite in scope and variety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE NOT SO DIZZY DEANS | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...less exciting photographic magazine. Although the tabloids freely admitted that their aim was to give the public photographs of intimate and compromising situations, only those people who were notorious for such activities were bothered. Now, however, the outgrowth of this seems to be more far-reaching in its scope. Everybody who could possibly become involved in a compromising or intimate situation is eagerly sought after as good copy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIFE OF THE PARTY | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

...course in the Medical School, but is not considered t be redundant, but rather to be valuable for men intending to go into medicine. The reading material is good, the lecturers, Redfield, Stier, and Wald are all above average, and the laboratory work is remarkably interesting both for the scope of physical equipment and god organization. Time estimates run from 10 to 12 hours per week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

...increasingly familiar concept among people who pay no attention to crystal-gazers and swamis is largely due to the rigorously controlled, long-continued experiments at Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy and clairvoyance but any other "unusual capacities of mind that do not fit into the recognized order of things." He chose the word parapsychology, an importation from the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Parapsychology | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...only with the advice of the local native cabinet but also without their advice or against their advice, is the feature most open to question. In British eyes it means that each white Governor can be trusted to allow each native cabinet all proper latitude and scope toward development in India for the first time of representative democracy, while vigilantly curbing any cabinet activities of an unfortunate or subversive nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Sword For Pen | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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