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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Plays: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

More than one hundred years ago Stephen Van Rensselaer founded at Troy the first undergraduate engineering college. In 1841 the University of Michigan set up its Utopian heaven of a university in a democracy. Nearly one hundred years ago the college for women first saw light in the South. At the same time coeducation became the practice of the majority of American institutions. By the Morrill act of 1863 the agricultural and preferred positions in the university curriculum. These innovations were peculiar to America in the system of higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President MacCracken of Vassar Sees Much Good in Student Move | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

...pride and prejudice have forced this, together with a large amount of real fear, into the darkness and away from the light of common interest and community research. And the very fact that this has so long held true must-remind many that this is not a question which can be settled in any easy or immediate manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLOR LINE | 6/3/1926 | See Source »

...believer in thorough westernization. He is evidently irked by the fendalism remaining in politics and provincialism in industry. They who hold that Japan can do better by consciously rejecting unsuitable portions of western civilization might see more progress. Nevertheless, these suggestions place the far eastern question in a light that the ego-istic westerner seldom sees. They show Japan, far from single-minded and bent on onset against the west, in the throes of difficult and diverse evolution. Which all goes to show that the popular mind, if not the scholarly mind also, is ignorant of just where the yellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSIDE OF NIPPON | 6/2/1926 | See Source »

Great God . . . I tall . . . I die . . . Thy blinding light has struck mine eyes. I stagger on the bloody field. . . . Death . . . Horrid death demands I yield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unknown Poet Pays Memorial Day Visit to Widener Leaving Wreath and Verses Under Sargent Canvas | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

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