Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superiority of the Oxford method to the course system, a sudden departure from our established position could hardly be advocated, even by them. And since the latter system has certain advantages of its own, which will be pointed to presently, our policy should rather be to strive to collect the strong features of both plans into an original production than simply to choose the better of two possibilities...
...field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor of Bucharest, scrappy Paris of the Balkans. The post needed a man skilled in big figures, capable of collecting bills which the outgoing minister* has failed to collect. Would Mr. Culbertson take it? He would and did. The new minister to Rumania was born in Pennsylvania, raised, schooled in Kansas. He attended Yale and several German universities. When only...
Announcement is made of the list of collectors for the annual Phillips Brooks House Association spring drive for old clothing. The drive, which is under the direction of B. L. Kilgour '27, will last until Thursday, when a truck will be sent around to collect the clothes. The complete list of collectors follows...
...leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan Treasury official had investigated the leak, found nothing. The House was mollified. ¶A Conservative, name omitted in cable despatches, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any attempt had been made to collect the British debts repudiated by the Southern states of the U. S. after the Civil War.* CHAMBERLAIN...
...announcement that the spring drive for old clothing will begin today under the direction of B. L. Kilgour '27. The collectors who will canvass the dormitories have been notified by mail of their selection. The drive will last until Thursday, when a truck will be sent around to collect the clothes...