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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such are the implied enconiums heaped upon the system of travelling fellowships for graduates, also on instances of exchange professorships, and the like. It is hard to see why the same reasoning does not apply, and with equal force, to travelling scholarships for undergraduate. It is an outworn doctrine that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNDERGRADUATE'S TURN | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

The question of who should go to college and who should not is one of recurring complexity, and any expert opinion on the matter is always welcome. The suggestions recently made in the American Magazine, by Dr. Faunce, president of Brown University, is that a candidate for higher education determine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTIVE EDUCATION | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

"It required another magazine, TIME, to show the Negro the difference between editorial attitudes. TIME digests Negro opinion, and today TIME is found on the table of the waiting room of almost every Negro professional, as well as in the reading-rooms of the Negro homes. And why? TIME talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

But last night he had the good fortune to pick out Durgin Parks as the most likely vendor of masticulatory delight. He ate, as every one else is bound to do who chooses this place to dine, a good, substantial dinner. But all the while he was eating it he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/20/1927 | See Source »

THE curiosity of anyone who has followed recent literary reviews should be excited by the mere mention of the name, Paul Valery. This man has been compared to Baudelaire, to Pascal, even, if I remember rightly, to Plato. Such raptuous enthusiasm, issuing from eminent and sober critics, arouses in one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY. By Paul Valery. Translated from the French by T. Malcolm Crosby. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927. $3.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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