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There is scarcely a college in the country which has not produced some sign of symbol of student ferment during the present college year. Here it takes the form of a campaign against compulsory chapel, there it is advice to the Trustees and Faculty as to how to run the college, again it is a barbed critique of the mental habits of the students themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flippant Revolt | 6/13/1925 | See Source »

...cider press and allowed his cider to ferment a bit, just as he had done previously with some grapes, and he gave his neighbors to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Not Guilty | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

MEET THE WIFE?The fairly amusing process of shaking together the two husbands of one wife and watching them ferment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Flower" of Edna Worthley Underwood, published by Hougaton, Mifflin Company, is the second volume of a new world trilogy of which the first. "The Penitent", was published in 1922. The scene of "The Penitent" is laid in Russia of a century ago, a period soothing as today with the ferment of new ideas. "The Passion Flower," like its predecessor, is also a story of Russia. In her last volume, the story will deal in part with America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOTS AND TITLES | 4/4/1924 | See Source »

...part the decline may be explained as due to the usual exporting of American crops, especially high priced cotton. But it is obvious that the recent political ferment in Germany, the uncertainty as to the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, and the threatened breach between England and Italy on the one hand, and France on the other, have provided the basis for heavy speculative liquidation of European currencies in many of the world's exchange markets. In addition, there has probably been some shifting of European funds to New York for safekeeping, as well as speculative purchases of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fall in Foreign Exchange | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

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