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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty publications on city and regional planning have been produced by the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture or written by those directly connected with it. The chief editor of City Planning, the official magazine of the profession, is Professor Henry Vincent Hubbard of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Harvard. Professor Hubbard received a grant last year from the Harvard Milton Fund for a field study of city, planning and zoning progress in the United States, the results of which will be published in a few weeks in a substantial volume entitled "Our Cities Today and Tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY PLANNING SCHOOL OPENS THIS FALL WITH SEPARATE FACILITIES | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Aside from the fact that many rates "signify nothing" because they apply to products exported and not imported, and are on the books only to throw dust in the farmers' eyes, the chief center of attack on the new tariff is in the international complications arising from it. With Europe in debt to the United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOURNEY'S END | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Even the most cursory readers of the daily press must be now familiar with the fact that the Senate is investigating the activities of a man whose chief claim to fame is that of most famous thrower of monkey wrenches in the machinery of progress. On his own representation, he blocked the famous Geneva conference for a trifling monetary consideration. That he bent every effort toward doing so, there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONEY TALKS | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriarch Revised | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard's chief claims to educational leadership lies in the trend away from forceful, towards voluntary instruction. The fact that this has become almost a commonplace to Harvard men under the form of the Lowellism "all education is self-education" ought not to obscure the fact that there is still much to be accomplished along the general lines already laid down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESS | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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