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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the lead at Harvard, 900 Smith students at a mass-meeting yesterday formulated a resolution supporting the stand taken here which has been sent to Chambers to carry to Washington. Mt. Holyoke has also contributed to the drive, sending in a petition to Chambers with 400 signatures...
...wants a compromise between the two; he does not object to tutorial if at the same time he can have excellent lecturing. For this reason Dean Hanford's suggestion has great appeal-that the traditional scheme may in part be adjusted to those disliking specialization by improving the courses taken primarily for distribution purposes and by providing a large number of stimulating lectures...
...devoted principally to a special large and a small seminar room, with a luxurious lounge between them. This lounge is to be specifically stocked with reading material and will be the scene of any larger seminars and meetings besides being a common room. The remainder of the space is taken up with offices...
Washington Plans. No Administration has taken so deep an interest in medical legislation as Franklin Roosevelt's. Under the Social Security Act of 1935 Congress authorized annual expenditures of $3,800,000 for maternal and child health, $8,000,000 for grants to State health departments, $3,000,000 for the blind. In 1937, it appropriated $1,500,000 for cancer, in 1938, $3,000,000 for venereal disease...
...some of Author Martin's implications were to be taken seriously, democratic readers might well start after him in a posse. But these implications, like the story itself, are content to be arresting. The book, unlike the idea behind it, has lots of bang but little dynamite. Though General Manpower can justly be accused of ingeniously sketching out an ingenious notion, it will not be convicted of undue seriousness, in any court...