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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is reassuring that a great university and its experts should take an active part in such a creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING TO HARNESS | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

There is a widespread opinion among educators as well as laymen that our larger colleges and universities do not do their jobs as efficiently as they might. Various reasons are advanced for their alleged failure. Some say our huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Note on Education | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

"Mr. Villard might do better if he left off his boiled shirt for a few nights, and panhandled his bed and board along the Bowery. "Mr. Villard needs bitterness, not expensive fun. He has had the latter all of his life. Heywood Broun needs a little iron, too. This country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Masses v. The Nation | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

But Hagar did "worry heself dat much," slid leaden into the river. Painstakingly her wizened old mother Mamba had trained her to sacrifice everything for her daughter Lissa. And now Hagar had strangled the "woman-chaser," Gilly, strangled him before he could do her Lissa hahm." Mamba was furious, feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

In spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest...

Author: By B. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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