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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornelia Storrs Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G. L. (Gracious Lady), by the Massachusetts Teachers' Federation. A mathematics master, Harry C. Barber of Philips-Exeter Academy, was elected to succeed Miss Adair as president at the next convention...
Meanwhile the following additional major causes will operate to bring famine: i) unrestricted childbearing among the ignorant Chinese masses, who have no knowledge of birth control; 2) low agricultural yields even from fertile land, caused by traditional, inefficient methods of cultivation; 3) backward financial and industrial conditions, just now accentuated by the widespread collapse of credit due to the Civil War; 4) the constitutional lack of a spirit of resolute co-operation among Chinese (this lack being constantly made manifest by their failure to unite in effective numbers for any purpose what soever beyond the horizon of a single family...
...goal of the seven wise men, comprising the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9) is nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Amazed Italians wondered. How came this Amir of a fabled realm to be so nonchalant, so easily and intelligently apprehensive of both modernity and Eternal Rome? Is not Afghanistan the exotic and backward land of castor oil beans, asafoetida plants, and "fat-tailed sheep"?* Is it possible that a country without railways, a people whose chief exports are the wool and skins of "fat-tailed sheep" can have achieved sophistication...
...fact that great initiatory movements might have their inception in the most unexpected fountainhead. The penetrating of a new frontier by the "middies" is at one and the same time a challenge and a reproach to the rest of the collegiate athletic world which evidently has been far too backward...