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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correct or criticize this statement I might inform that no zealous Mason would attempt to induce any man to join the order. It simply isn't done. Being one, I know whereof I speak, or write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Miserable Austria! | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

When Manhattan top-hatted and bustled into the 90's the late Clara B. Spence founded a school for girls. Extremely correct, it was on 48th street, just off Fifth Avenue-a school for gentlewomen. Even Manhattan's late Social Arbiter Ward McAllister approved. Last week in Manhattan's soon-to-be-destroyed Hotel Waldorf Astoria of which Arbiter McAllister also approved, 500 Spence alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Naturally an arrangement so repugnant to common sense tends to correct itself Though Warren's casebook remains nominally the basis of Property L. actually the cases which it contains on convincing, the very heart of the subject, are used by the students merely as supplements to their reading in the texts of Bigelow, Introduction to the Law of Real Property, and Holdsworth. An Historical Introduction to the Land Law. Tiffany's pretties is extensively used in connection with other parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaintiff | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

...added that in intramural sports the aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed on the Rhodes Trust, that I hope that you will pardon me for seeking to correct any possible misapprehensions. I may add that while in the abstract. Oxford sometimes discusses the same matter, I never found that the fact of being an American caused the slightest prejudice against an individual. This, naturally, may vary with persons and, more particularly, with the Colleges. Sincerely yours, Mason Hammond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

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