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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...would they be failures? In a previous article the writer stated that there are certain groups in Harvard College, among which is the one with the social complex. This group will support college dances either through a spirit of tradition or a desire to let the "girl back home" get a view of Harvard College glory. The Freshman Jubilees and the Junior Proms are indeed sorry specimens of Harvard glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Proposed Solution | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...anachronism based on an outworn tradition. Before our highly complex modern universities had been developed, students naturally gathered about the great teacher for intellectual guidance. Today the situation has been definitely altered. Specialists in certain fields are given the control of large institutions, a control which they either may not be capable of handling or to which they find themselves decidedly unsuited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

...responsibility of upturning a tradition would be relieved solely by excellent reasons for doing so. Our willingness to relegate this tradition manifests lassitude and pecuniary "tightness" since the reasons brought forth for its dismissal include lack of interest and added expense. It is in our hands either to acknowledge defeat before effort or to make a successful Junior Prom one of the highlights of the class of 1930. Its success, needless to say, rests upon wholehearted support and its result is a reflection upon our class. G. C. Holbrook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

...Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles is only one-fifth as potent as in the average district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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