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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room management, or of leo-cream making. But when we think of the time when, in the Chamber Des Deputes, they wanted to forbid the development of the railroads because they would prevent the cows from grazing at liberty and giving good milk, we are forced to admit that our ancient prejudices in favor of general culture and humanism have at times made us narrow minded, and a belt out-of-date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCORES AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CHARACTER EDUCATION | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

...which Mr. Herbert C. Pell '05, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee attended, the National Committee also determined to limit the number of guests by allowing each state chairman to invite three. The small size of the balcony in New Lecture Hall will make it impossible to admit the public. The convention will be limited to male guests, so that the presence of women and children will not force the delegates to restrain themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LECTURE HALL WILL HOUSE DEMOCRATIC RALLY | 5/9/1924 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution introduced by Senator Kendrick of Wyoming to admit three Russian waifs, whose parents died of starvation, detained at Ellis Island since December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...interests are served but those of liberalism. Of course, it is true that our younger English universities are man aged in much the same way, but each college of Oxford and Cambridge is owned by its professors and consequently managed to suit their interests--interests which, you must admit, are more liberal than those of a group of successful merchants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTRAND RUSSELL SCORES INTELLECTUAL QUARANTINE | 4/11/1924 | See Source »

...results of a wide-spread movement towards liberalism," Mr. Russell summed up as he prepared to end the interview, "especially in American universities, would be inestimable. I admit, of course, that a reformer who sits at a desk and evolves Utopian theories is, in the final estimate, useless. But once a student has achieved liberty of thought, his next step is to stump the country trying to convert people, and then he becomes a factor in the progress of civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTRAND RUSSELL SCORES INTELLECTUAL QUARANTINE | 4/11/1924 | See Source »

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