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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The honor of being the first elected Fellow of the Canadian College went to Dr. Thomas Clarence Routley, 40. general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. (Its president is Stephen Rice Jenkins, 71, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, a province with only 63 physicians for its 87,000 people.) Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Royal Canadian College | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Clifford Wittingham Beers and his associates in the great Mental Hygiene movement (TIME, Nov. 25) tacked to a new educational course last week. The past 20 years they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erratum | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: "One can imagine our shaggy ancestors fighting fiercely with other wild savages or can picture them chasing through the dark underbrush after an animal that they hoped to broil over their fires that evening for dinner. Then, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

A lifelong student of language, Laureate Bridges has now justified his reputation. The English language, unlike Latin, Greek or French, is supposedly incapable of quantitative versification: i. e., the scansion of English verse is not dependent on "long" or "short" syllables since there is no such formal distinction between syllables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate Testifies | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

The Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of ?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate Testifies | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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