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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Butler of Columbia, upon the completion of the merger, declared mouthfillingly, that it was "a significant step in the evolution of the organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BUDDING PLANT | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

"I have not gone through a legal ceremony. ... I do not consider that marriage ought to be the subject of legal contract. It is far too intimate and personal a matter for that. . . . My union with my husband is entirely free. ... I believe that the tendency of the future is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Name Perpetuated | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

At Rochester he maintains a laboratory upon which he yearly spends hundreds of thousands of dollars. There-under the direction of Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (B.S., D.Sc., Sc.D.) and the assistant direction of Dr. Samuel Edward Sheppard (B.Sc., D.Sc.)-work 80 chemists, physicists and photographic experts, with 60 assistants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Frank Bartlette Willis, farmer's son, was "home grown" even more consciously and thoroughly than his outstanding contemporaries, Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. He did not live to outgrow Ohio, like a William Howard Taft or a Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Willis | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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