Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columbia University was advertising, seemingly with record enterprise, the degrees it has to confer upon correspondence students. Newspaper displays made it appear as though famed Professors John Dewey (philosophy), Michael Idvorsky Pupin (science), Ashley H. Thorndike and John Erskine (literature), and peers would personally supervise the work of unseen disciples, send them their marks, write them advice, send pearls of erudition by rural free delivery. Shrewd customers; however, did not raise their hopes so high. They well knew that, like the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, California and other institutions conducting extension courses, Columbia must find mail-order pedagogy in such...
...Mencken). The result is most vivid, so many unexpected angles appear, so cleverly arranged. There are letters from the mother's onetime butler to his wife in England; letters from a sea captain with whom John rounded the Horn; letters between John's meat-packing Chicago in-laws; letters and statements of his women, "good, bad, but never indifferent...
...many such idiots, enough to have filled the CRIMSON ranks in the past; enough po doubt, to fill them in the future. It is not necessary to exhort undergraduates to try for the CRIMSON; those with a taste for the sort of adventure which CRIMSON work offers will appear at the meeting Wednesday night as matter of course. Others will do better to stay away...
...come down to the present time. The showing for collegians is a little better, but not much. Edward J. O'Brien of the Boston Transcript reads and judges every year the short stories that appear in the worth-while magazines. Going through one of his recent compilations. I find that he considers 63 stories of the year's output enduring. Forty six writers produced them, some wrote more than one. Katherine Fullerton Gerould, of Radcliffe, wrote five. Of the 46 writers, I am not sure of the education of four, but of the remaining 42, 26 went to college...
...first release will appear in Monday's issue in the form of a general prophesy for the season...