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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the University will have an opportunity to compete for four valuable prizes, one of which is worth $500, another $100, and two valued at $25 each. The prizes are awarded in each instance to the author of the best poem that has not been previously published either in a magazine or in book form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASH PRIZES STIR MUSE OF UNIVERSITY WRITERS | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

Fine Arts 14c. Romanesque Architecture. Monday, Wednesday. Friday at 3 o'clock. Professor Porter. (This course announced to be omitted in 1927-28 is being given as a full course and may, with the consent of the instructor, be taken in either half year as a half course.) (VIII...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lists Additional Half-Courses | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...American secondary school", he said, "is far more flexible than any of the secondary schools in either England. France, or Germany, and this feature is one of the unique distinctions between American and European secondary schools." The curriculum of the typical French secondary school limits the students to a certain definite course, he said, and they stvive to give the pupils a coherent education by requiring him to take the same courses repeatedly. "The American system," he continued, "gives the student a coherent educational training by making his school work interesting and informing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDD LAUDS AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL METHODS | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...control Edu cation is practically within the reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDD LAUDS AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL METHODS | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...well as Boston. "I hope I may be able to return there, but I fear not. We are now in the regions of slavery, and spittoons, and senators. All three are evils in all countries, but the spittoon is the worst. I don't see the use of it, either. If it be in deference to the opinion of society, I for one, would rather not be obliged to imagine constantly what may be inside that circular orifice. I prefer the box of sand, which is a candid piece of furniture, and invites contemplation. But why one should be troubled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XMAS BIBLIOPHILIA IS FEATURED AT WIDENER | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

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