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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought to kneel to worship the brave hero who should defy the current cake of though. Someone has said,--"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread", but I question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological...

Author: By H. M. R. jr., | Title: Epic Breadth and Grandure | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Despite the limitations of space and style selected by the author a well knit, compelling novel has been evolved. As a recorder of the current of emotion florving and ebbing in society at a wedding breakfast, it probably remains alone in the field...

Author: By A. B. M. ii., | Title: More Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...community. Those control stations are expensive to maintain. To replace the men and stations Westinghouse developed a radio device, which Boston Edison Co. began to use last week on a circuit of 70 street lights. The device utilizes the fact that an electric wire can carry several currents of different frequencies. There are the carrier current and the riding currents. In the base of each of the 70 Boston lamp posts now is a small radio receiving set. When a special generation at the central station sends waves of 720 cycles a second along the light wires, the receiver shoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Motions passed by the Student Council in its first session of the current academic year indicate a decided laxity on the part of past Councils in the handling of financial matters. Debts exceeding $1,500 on the publication of the University Register alone have been handed down unpaid to the present Council. What other debts may still be outstanding from former years was not reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLOPPY FINANCE | 10/4/1928 | See Source »

...days to sweep across the treacherous calms of the ocean; the Nina and the Atlantic had both reached Santander earlier. The Pinta was manned by a crew of eight amateurs and a paid hand. One of the former, Alfred F. Loomis, described the excitements of their cruise in the current issue of the Sportsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ships at Sea | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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