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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a magnificent gesture cried "Give me liberty, or give me death!", he never imagined that his descendants would fall so far from the heights of freedom as to discard their clothes of democracy for the court robe. By the hundred have the citizens of the land of the free bought audience with the successor of the tyrant of the colonies, plaguing high officials and besieging ambassadors to satisfy their vanity...
...been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses" at all in their last two years, but spend their time getting ready for the final comprehensive examinations...
...source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...
Hebrew Union College stands on a little knoll overlooking a park on the outskirts of Cincinnati. It was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1875 to train preachers in the Reformed Jewish faith. Tuition is free; the number of students is small (117 this year). Famed graduates are Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...Lenox String Quartet of New York City will present a program in Paine Concert Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. This concert, which will be open to the public free of charge, is made possible through the interest and financial support of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge...