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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Robeson meant to be a lawyer. He took a two-year course at Columbia University, earned his degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

One learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Yet there is a great degree of truth in Dr. Bell's statement as to the incompetency of the small college in getting adequate teachers. It it is not possible to uproot their physical plants and transfer them to the larger universities, it still remains possible to form a closer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE COUNTRY | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

The eastern undergraduate need not become too self-laudatory in his new found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUE AND CRY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

These men come to Harvard after having spent some time in their English universities, in many cases after receiving a degree there, and carry on research work here. Their status is slightly different from that of most visiting scholars in that they are afforded more freedom in choice of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate School | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

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