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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am writing to express the hope that TIME will continue to use as cover-frontis-pieces those very clever and vigorous portrait sketches by the man whose name I cannot decipher. I have started a scrapbook, containing these drawings and their corresponding articles, and hope to make up a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

The chief thing which startled me on arriving back in Cambridge," said Dean Pound to a CRIMSON reporter, "was that my book the "Spirit of Common Law" had been translated into Japanese, and two copies had been sent to me. I have spent quite some time trying to decipher my...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN POUND RETURNS FROM ARBITER'S JOB | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

Whenever some public-spirited savant brings forward a method of dealing out information wholesale, by means of "predigested news" or "educational films", or "fifteen minute-a-day" reading courses, there is usually more or less definite disparagement by those who are devoted to the "good old days" and apparently want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY PILLS. | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

This marginal controversy may be interesting to those who take part, and in some cases amusing to those who follow, but it seldom adds to the literary value of the book. It is not conducive to the best study, for we note that the author of the above remarks did...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CAMBRIDGE WITS | 10/18/1922 | See Source »

If we are to let such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/1/1922 | See Source »

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