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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University Register, publication of which was omitted this year, will next year be issued by the CRIMSON, it was announced yesterday by the Student Council. The Council voted to accept the offer of the CRIMSON, and agreed to underwrite the publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WILL PUBLISH REGISTER NEXT AUTUMN | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

World Court. The Senate refused to discuss the World Court, but rejoiced when it heard that Great Britain would not accept the five U. S. reservations. The result: the World Court is for the present a dead issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 69th | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor, led into rings, offered to angered bulls. But from the standpoint of all (save the horses) steel armor has been a failure. The bulls have refused to bruise their horns against the unyielding protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Puncture-Proof | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...than men who led the advance through the Argonne and other men who took their ships round the Horn. If they can be made to appreciate the importance of intellectual training they will take it seriously enough. The only way to make young men feel the importance is to accept and act upon the principle that they are partners, and the more important partners, in the educational endeavor. This we have not done. We have confused instruction with education. We have not seen clearly that nobody can educate anybody else. The faculty can only direct and supervise and maintain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY BENEFITS BY NEW RESPITE | 3/4/1927 | See Source »

Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer immediately announced, last week, that Britain will accept what amounts to a "hand out" from France. Should the U. S. follow suit a most important precedent would be created, a precedent greatly to the advantage of France, who might come to adopt the policy of "handing out" to her creditors what and when the French Premier may please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Poincaré's Week | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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