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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanford. He is alarmed for the passing from American life of what he aptly calls "our scholarly amateur". Unless the Junior College idea is checked the average college graduate in the future will "go directly from school to business, and the glorious peculiarity of American education will disappear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PALMER OVERLOOKS | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

Frank Hamilton Hankins, professor of sociology at Smith College (girls), lectured at Columbia University, Manhattan, last week. Said he: "I have made an exhaustive study of the Negro question. The Negro in this country bids fair to disappear absolutely within a couple of hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Obliteration | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

From that meeting Sun emerged to disappear into hiding in a manner peculiar to Chinese war lords who have been checkmated. He who had lorded at Shanghai, absolute even a month ago, vanished so completely that correspondents reported him to be in two or three places at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Basest War Lord | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

There was a time when men told fortunes by the stars, when Louis XI quailed before the coursing of the planets, when Tycho Brahe observed the passage of a comet and thereupon fore told the coming of a scourge out of the North who should conquer and disappear. So was Gustavus Adolphus preceded by prophecy. So the stars entered intimately into the lives of men, Upon the story of the telescope nations waited in suspense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN STARS ARE NEWS | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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