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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Novelist and dramatist like his father, Alexandre fils (1824-95) began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...years ago at the University of Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
When his turn came, Mr. Churchill began : "In expressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too nattering terms in which they refer...
After Mr. Churchill had finished and sat down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his own speech -which had been sound-recorded without his knowledge...