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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace Levine and Eloyse Levine, aged 9, arose at 5 a.m. and, leaving Ardeth Levine, aged 1, in the Levine home at Rockaway Park, L. I., joined Handshaker Whalen on the tug Macom. Soon Hero Levine, a smaller, quieter, ruddy-blond edition of Mussolini,* and Jewish† instead of Italian, climbed off the S. S. Leviathan. He answered news-gathers questions as though he knew they were perfunctory, called at City Hall because he was expected there, lunched at the Hotel Astor because he was hungry. He was not surprised that New York did not toot its horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Passenger Levine | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Granting the necessity of giving frequent examinations, why should not a type of examinations, why should not a type of examinations be given that will be of some benefit to the students instead of being an unmitigated aggravation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...given. Looking at Freshmen as they are and not as they ought to be it is quickly seen that the reading is done by more than the minority "who ought to be flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn had for that exam," is it not much better to study the material in the course so that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

This year no tickets will be sold for public parking within Soldiers Field. The H. A. A. has developed instead a playing field behind the Business School, bounded by North Harvard Street and Western Avenue, with a capacity of 2000 cars, which will be open for general parking on the days of football games. The only entrance for parking will be on Western Avenue, and the most direct route to the field from Kenmore Square, is as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUARE CLOSED TO ALL GAME TRAFFIC | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...concert to be given by Mme. Lillian Evanti in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall will take place October 27, at 8.15 o'clock, instead of October 28, as erroneously announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 10/19/1927 | See Source »

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