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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Harkness Gifts | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chalet de Riond Bosson | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Authentically the only skyscrapers worth while constructing in the congested business districts of Detroit, Chicago or Manhattan, where certain plots are worth about $400 a square foot, are those of 75 stories. In San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland, where prize blocks are worth $200 a square foot, the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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