Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herewith are excerps from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
...terms of reproach at which the Harvard student of today merely shrugs his shoulder. They have been used too long and too often. Yet there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying for "Godless Harvard" might well...
...making this distinction between vocational training and cultural education educators have particularly in mind the American colleges. They desire that the college should be an exclusive institution which shall contain only men who love the Arts and Sciences instead of business and money; where the club-room dominates over the class-room; where a man learns to live instead of to earn money; where the atmosphere is one of poetry and music instead of industry and dollars; in short, where the mind is taught to find peace in spiritual rather than material things...
...regards calories, the Bulletin was irate: "Regarding the system of estimating calories, Childs should offer an explanation, for the bill-of-fare says that bacon contains 300 calories, while bacon and eggs contain 380. That allows 80 calories for eggs. Fried ham alone contains 400 calories, but add eggs and you have only 390, so that eggs lose their calories when fried with ham but preserve them when fried with bacon. On the other hand, Childs tells you that fried eggs alone have 190 calories. Can you figure...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...