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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dumb and stupid world plants its weary feet upon the slippery and blood-soaked sand where men like John Brown died. . . . America ought to be glad to build a monument to John Brown and ashamed to let the Negroes take the lead. He was one of America's great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: At Lake Placid | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...ever be allowed to forget it. The Herald notes with a great deal if interest that the University of Miami, age one year, whose Freshman class of 200 attends classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development concern, seeks to obtain a fund of $500,000 to build up a football stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What, Again? | 5/28/1927 | See Source »

...attractions for athletes than scholastic enlightenment. The University of Miami is less than a year old and consists of some 200 freshmen who attend classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development company. And yet, Miamians saw fit recently to launch a drive for $500,000 to build a football stadium. "Building this stadium," said one publicist, "is the best possible way to prove to the North that Miami is not down and out, but is still going strong." Skeptics urged that the university yell be changed to: "Boom! Boom! Boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Florida | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy of both critics and public, and which is at once informative and a best seller. Such a book is Professor John Livingston Lowes' "The Road to Xanadu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROAD TO XANADU | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...been our intention to bring before the students, in a lecture program distinguished men on subjects of informal and general medical interest. We have endeavored in the last two years by thoughtful choice of speakers, careful selection of day and time and judicious advertising to build up toward our lectures an enthusiastic esprit de corps. The results have, we believe, repaid the efforts. Besides the reception, our program has been as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL SERVICE HAS NO PLACE | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

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