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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come to be expected and its significance minimized by the casual observer to whom the words, "Figures show increase in candidates for Distinction", become an annual chant. Before last year when it was necessary to limit Senior candidates for distinction to those men who had attained a Group Four or better standing by the end of their Junior year the percentage had risen to nearly one half of the College. Last year it dropped to a little over twenty-eight per cent. This year it has jumped to nearly thirty two per cent. It is possible to draw two conclusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HONORS MEN INCREASE" | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

...sorry reflection on the powers that be that a group of women are needed to give a now synthesis of interests of Jehoyah and the Continental Congress. A long series of public woes is summed up in the statement to the press of Mrs. Henry W. Peabody: "Things have not been right in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSTANT WIFE | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: British Librarians | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start to play. A group of Preludes and Fugues, the Partia in C minor, the Toccata in G minor and the French Suite in E - he interpreted flawlessly and made them vital, thrilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach & Samuel | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...learn that the Boston Tea Party was vandalism made me feel that Schlesinger* should be filling a cell in a Federal prison." This last week's continuation of legal irrelevancies and digressions at last made some restive Chicago citizens rebuke the city's administration. A group of 29 civic organizations published a resolution: "Four or five sessions of this trial, occupying as many weeks, have now been held; but the original charges on which the Superintendent was suspended, and on which he can legally be tried at this time have not been argued. Instead the time has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Chicago | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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