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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON offers its Charles William Eliot Memorial Issue, which appears today, as its tribute to the memory of the great man who guided the destinies of Harvard University for 40 years. Although it can in no way be regarded as the expression of the undergraduate body as a whole, it does express the point of view of undergraduates. We who are in Harvard today are enjoying the full fruits of this man's labor for the future Harvard. The CRIMSON therefore has considered it to be eminently fitting to show its appreciation in this positive though necessarily limited manner...
Since early in the fall, this appreciation of the former president of the University has been growing. It is today the sincere attempt on the part of the CRIMSON to express in some manner the feeling of the undergraduate body and of those closely in touch with the life and the work of Mr. Eliot, and their common gratitude for what his life and his work have meant to the University...
...this country. President Eliot thus initiated the development which has resulted in the establishment of the Graduate School of Education. He has always shown the keenest interest in the growth of the work Harvard has done in the technical training of teachers and superintendents and has never failed to express his belief in the future of that work. The gift of half a million dollars from the General Education Board, which forms the basis of the endowment of the Graduate School of Education, was made by the Board largely in recognition of Professor Hanus's services to education and also...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...CREAM ... ¶ There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME'S Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good. ¶ They are books selected from extensive lists as being of outstanding merit and interest for TIME-readers. Laudatory "blurbs" are purposely omitted, being unnecessary. Each book's mere presence in the list testifies to its excellence; each book admitted has been, or will be, descriptively reported...