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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State are great only in proportion as our people are intelligent, civic minded, and actuated by motives to advance the social well being, Leaders to carry on this work are trained in our colleges and universities. From these institutions come many of the influential minds of the country. College-bred men and women in large measure have shaped, and will continue to shape, policies for the upbuilding of this Commonwealth and these United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNOR COX SPEAKS AT ALUMNI EXERCISES | 6/23/1922 | See Source »

...Whereas the nations of the world, already impoverished by past war and confronted by the urgent social and economic problems bred by war, have entered on an unprecedented scale into the race for military and naval supremacy which makes for mutual distrust and war rather than for mutual understanding and peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGES ENDORSE DISARMAMENT PLAN | 10/27/1921 | See Source »

...Parker, reporting the game between Harvard and Centre College, calls attention to a fact that has been rather disagreeably noticeable for a long time. A large element of the spectators as distinguished from the student body manifested a most unpleasant and ill-bred hostility toward the Harvard team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/30/1920 | See Source »

Standing for the younger group of college-bred playwrights and producers, Lee Simonson has staged numerous shows of types not usually hazarded by the large theatres, and is known as one of the most progressive and artistic producers in the smaller experimental theatres in the country. In this line he has achieved a marked success at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with which he is connected. Among his best-known recent productions have been "John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg," which is now running there. Mr. Simonson has been connected in his work with S. J. Hume '13, Irving Pichel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEE SIMONSON AT UNION | 5/10/1920 | See Source »

...stand out as supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education is a detriment to the men who are ultra brilliant, and the world is bound to lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/17/1920 | See Source »

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