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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task for a mental colossus as long as scholarship and instruction retain their Slamese relationship. Nor do standard curricula always assist toward the desired end. They sometimes spring from separate departments and emmesh the student, without being subject to correlation by a whole faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYSTACK | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...current issue of the Nation contains an article by William Pickens in which he commends recent attempts by the students at various universities to assist in bringing a trifle nearer solution that problem which has faced this country for so many years under the caption, "color-line." Many books and much discussion have effected little. And in a time when the youth of the nation is shouldering so many of the difficulties which their very vigor and intrepidly enable them to carry it is interesting to realize that some of the student youth of the country dare to tread upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLOR LINE | 6/3/1926 | See Source »

...hope that the Committee of the international Chamber of Commerce will materially affect the present equilibruim, it does not deny its usefulness for the future. Now, it can only encourage an international outlook. But after years of careful investigating and recording, it will have at band convincing data to assist a comparatively persuadable world. At least this is the hopeful view of the matter. And it is well to hope that the present will give way, under the strain to something sounder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPASSE | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...Aint it the truth, Mr. Finkleburg? Yes. And so why not the ankles in a feature play (for public consumption with beauty comic, huh? So a scenario with ankles for the public, Miss Apfel, you will get and perhaps maybe some slap stick to assist the ankles with a hotel for impression, what? No! Don't esk? If gentlemen patrons won't look at faces on Broadway or perhaps cross town why should they in moving picture art, so ankles it is with high skirts of Paris, Miss Apfel. Dictation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...with the Guggenheim School of Aviation, inaugurated there four years ago and expanded last year by $500,000 from Daniel Guggenheim for an aviation building unique* among U. S. universities. The U. S. unit at the school will consist of a regular flying officer detailed, with special equipment, to assist Professor Alexander Klemin, the head of the school, and train the graduates to eligibility for commissions in the Flying Corps of the Officers' Reserve. Last June the Guggenheim School graduated nine men. This year it enrolls 15. The prospect of practical experience at Government fields is expected to multiply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Impetus | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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