Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considers a college generation as it extends over the four years of the undergraduate curriculum, a tradition that has extended over 30 years assumes a much more venerable aspect. In this light, the present action of the Phillips Brooks House in discarding a habit that has been indulged in for more than seven generations of college men, is deserving of notice...
Under the inspiration of Dwight L. Moody, the Northfield intercollegiate conference assumed a form intended to accomplish two things: to convert college men to Christianity and a better interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration...
...thoughts of the still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able Dr. Edwin Cornelius...
...deeper. How may I rest against her heart which beats so gently, when the heart of the world is troubled, when its breast may be beaten again by the iron of the guns of the lightless people? I am weary, but how can I rest having seen the Light...
...great climactic chapter of her story, Authoress Lowell told of the burning and sinking of the Minnie A. Caine off the coast of Australia some seven years ago, she swimming three miles to a light-ship with a family of kittens clinging with their claws to her firm flesh. What started last week's uproar was the discovery of the Minnie A. Caine, lying placidly at anchor in Oakland Harbor, Calif. She has been there for the past two years. Fact-finders were able to show that Joan Lowell and her father had been aboard the Minnie A. Caine...