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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progress, though slight, is definitely being made. The average rate of the pulse has diminished, and it is less easily disturbed by outside influences. In weighing the significance of these facts it must not be forgotten that there is still difficulty in feeding, wasting and exhaustion, and that these cannot be overcome without a long effort, especially the exhaustion produced by the gallant and extended struggle for life?an element that throughout the case has given the greatest anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...step in the direction which all progressive universities must take if they are to avoid the consequences of overgrowth and standardization. The situation at Princeton is less pressing than at Harvard; Princeton has neither Harvard's severe growing pains not its noticeable lack of essential unity. And yet Princeton cannot be excepted from the observation that our leading universities must find some method of justifying their leadership if this leadership is to remain more than purely nominal; somehow they must provide a noticeably superior education. Mr. Barkness and Harvard's plan certainly may be regarded as working toward this. --Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Applauds | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy to officers selected from among men of experience in the work, instead of from a body of undergraduates of no qualifications except success in other fields, cannot fail to benefit the external side of Brooks House activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM FOR BROOKS HOUSE | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNIOR DANCE | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign of 1928. His own victory in a year of overwhelming Democratic defeat cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a remarkable personal tribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHIEF MARSHAL | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

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