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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained...
...Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity Sweepstakes (Army and Navy Veterans, Quebec, Unit...
...wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made money building railroads in the West...
...London, last week, the Film Actors Guild denounced U. S. talkies, attributed to them the collapse of the English cinemindustry, the unemployment of hundreds of cinemactors, cinemactresses, an eight million dollar shrinkage in stock valuation...
...come together at Mrs. Rodney's dinner-party at 7:45 p. m. Another author might have attended the party, woven a plot. But Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...