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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After spending a quiet Juma, your Turkish official comes down to the foreign office bright and early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of the Turkish week, is simply hopeless for the poor official, because throughout Christendom it is Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...This," wrote Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane one day last week, "is written at Middleburg, Va., where you find the finest hunting country, with many packs of hounds, the best horses and the best girls' school in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Though the center is still in the period of formulation. It is interesting because of its resemblance to the Harvard Union, in which the University once hoped to find a solution to the same problem of reintegration to which the House Plan now seeks the key. Whether Princeton will have better success with a medium which Harvard found, inadequate, or will be forced to take other and further steps, will depend upon her own conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON'S UNION | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CITY OF MYSTERY | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...very midst of their lives instead of only on the classroom fringe-for the so-called "inner-college" plan provides professors' rooms in the dormitories. This may prove a valuable stimulus to that class of students inherently brilliant, but also lazy, who would like to know some bother to find them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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