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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb society you would find out their opinions more easily than you would learn those of a state delegation to a national convention. It was Joseph who had the coat of many colors, wasn't it? Well, the Massachusetts delegations to the coming convention will be much more vari-colored than Joseph's coat ever...
Curtis does not make policies; he unveils them. It is his business to sound out the opposition, plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm...
...commanding problem of liberal education in America," Dean Holmes stated, "is the problem of unifying secondary education and collegiate education without denying the essential characters and modern development of either, To find a remedy for the existing situation is a difficult problem. The system of concentration and distribution, now used here at Harvard, with general examinations at the final stages of progress in the subjects of concentration might be tried in the preparatory schools, and prove the solution to the problem. There must be, however, cooperation with the colleges, and one college must take the lead in starting...
Best Young Scientist. A scheme of seeking to find the best fitted young man, between the ages of 17 and 25, to study four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was announced last week. Those who think they are "the best" will be required to submit a brief essay on "Why I Would Like a Technical Education;" will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General...
Then came Les Noces and Stravinsky plunged into the realm of the absolute. Music hereafter was to be utterly objective, to stand alone, to find inspiration for itself within itself, for its own sake, not for the sake of those who should listen, not even for his, Stravinsky's, sake...