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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the foreign student organization are given identity cards which give them special rates on railroads and particularly courteous receptions by the students of all affiliated countries through which they may travel. The United States, not as yet being a member of the C. I. E., cannot obtain the full privileges of such identity cards for her students this summer A special arrangement, however, has been made C. I. E. whereby the identity cards issued by the American Federation will provide American students with as many of these privileges as can be given in fairness to a nonmember...
...rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed...
...timeliness of the question, which the straphanger from Yonkers has probably been saving all winter with a great deal of impatience, has more than time on its side. But it points to the results as if they were causes, and deplores what cannot be remedied, while he emphasizes a standard which should not be employed. "You know," he says, "that 90 per cent of the young men being graduated today will never be heard from, as far as success is concerned...
...them as successes. It seems strange that so often in a topsy-turvy world the determination to reach a certain goal-should be the check which prevents such attainment. So it is here. The universal love of success over-crowds the markets with a supply which demand cannot accommodate and so the commodity of potential success goes begging. To continue the economic figure the root of the trouble lie in the fact that there is too little variety. Thousands of young men are coming to colleges to get possession of success, too few get possession of themselves...