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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just think of how the grown-ups in the dean's office must feel. They builded better than they knew when they selected as proctors individuals young enough to understand the child mind. The day may still be saved, however, if the idea is carried far enough. Incase the proctor's committee is at its wit's end, it may be well to offer a few suggestions. The writing-out idea is a good one especially as it may keep the proctors out of harms way correcting papers. After mid-years the stint will probably have to be extended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FURTHER FOOLISHNESS | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon as experimental, the club found instant favor, had an average at tendance its first year of 800 persons. In 19 years it has grown to an average at tendance of 2,500 persons. A vested choir of 100 voices sings at the hebdomadal gatherings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Red Mass | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...some machinery for the control of the surplus during a year when the farmers produce an exceptional crop. This could be let out in the lean years and the price of agricultural commodities stabilized. The government should establish some such machinery as that by which Brazil controls the coffee grown there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALSH OUTLINES PARTY'S POLICIES | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

Though Prime Minister Braun is a humanitarian and a Socialist, he has grown tired and angry at the conduct of Communist and Monarchist deputies who constantly obstruct proceedings of the Prussian Diet by their catcalls and hoots (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Prussian Scream Test | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Savants and Statesmen sometimes learn from Swine. As a result of such learning the Federal Council of the German States issued an order, last week, banning from importation into Germany all U. S. barley, except that grown in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Damning Decision | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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