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Dates: during 1940-1949
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2. "U.S. colleges should devote themselves to raising an intellectual elite."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

And so, in 1906, the Lawrence Scientific School closed its doors and passed out of existence. But in its 60-year life span, Abbott Lawrence's dream left an impression on United States scientific and educational practices that still remains. Professor Eben Norton Horsford gave the first course offered by...

Author: By S. WILLIAM Green, | Title: Lawrence Scientific School Marked Era in U. S. Intellectual History | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

"I advise and enjoin those who direct the paper in the tomorrows never to advocate any cause for personal profit or preferment. I would wish it always to be 'the tocsin' and devote itself to the policies of equality and justice to the underprivileged. If the paper should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editorial Policy | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Clyde Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, will leave all regular teaching duties in the Anthropology Department this term and devote his full time to direction of the newly created Committee on the Russian Research Center, it was announced during vacation.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn to Quit Lectures For Research | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

This evidence of the close attention you devote to our advertising as well as our editorial columns was very well exemplified by the 137 of you who wrote in to tell us that a Biblical quotation in an ad for the motion picture, The Best Years Of Our Lives, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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