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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nebraska's Cornhuskers (p. 44 of the current issue of Most Estimable TIME) are so labelled because as every sapient editor knows, students at University of Nebraska are recruited largely from the wide, smiling, pleasant areas of the Corn Belt, and because, as to football players, many a lad learned to throw forward passes after having thrown unerringly into wagon boxes hundreds of thousands of ears of white and yellow Nebraska corn...
Chile. Through the cool, north-rushing Humboldt current the Maryland plowed on towards Valparaiso...
With what fury the Brooklyn Edison Co. pursued Lawrence F. Jones! First they shut off his power, but his store remained well lighted. The Edison Co. appealed to the Department of Water, Gas and Electricity, supposing that Lawrence Jones was stealing current to illuminate his store. Though his store remained lighted, no one could tell where he got the current. At last, the Brooklyn Edison Co. had Lawrence Jones arrested. He proved himself innocent of theft and went...
Further, it touches upon the principle that the Dean's List privilege is, or should be, relative to current standing. The freedom granted by academic excellence is not so great that it should be accorded only twice a year, and it may be so valuable, properly used, that more students should enjoy it, for however slight a time, whenever they qualify in their courses. Such temporary elevation in standing needs careful guard to prevent its abuse; perhaps it was this knowledge that led the authorities to require consultation with the assistant deans before employment of the privilege...
...larger implications the organization may be of even greater importance. No country can sustain an artistic development unless there is some patronage of living artists. With the tendency in the United States towards the complete subservience of current creation to admiration for works of the past, a complete artist stagnation is not beyond the range of possibility. The growth of such a society as the "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art" will do much to make such a condition impossible...