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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The entire attitude of the English Department is dominated by the fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BARREN FIELD | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

Department of Genetics. Charles Benedict Davenport, 63, was an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetics | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Somewhat surprising was their action, for it was thought that merger, activities would be confined for the present to the consolidation of the 16 branches within Presbyterianism itself, while "conversations" were carried on with Methodists and Episcopalians. Precipitation to the larger movement came during the assembly's last day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Union . . . | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

"Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Tarkington | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

But Sebastian Spering Kresge does not sell eyeglasses. He used to sell them to thrifty persons who, consulting neither oculist nor optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters. Last week, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an S. S. Kresge store in Boston, in selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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