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...there exists another bondage none the less real because it substitutes a shuffle for a lock-step. Even at Harvard where current collegiatisms exert no great moral pressure, a colloquialism can become standard overnight. The latest innovation of this sort had a lowly beginning at Arthur's as "Sorry on the Seagoing." And now throughout the College, men are "sorry on" every missing object from shoe trees to the ace of spades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOSE-STEP STYLE | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

Divorced. Joseph Meredith Towne, 26, heir to part of the wealth represented by the Yale and Towne Lock Co.; by the onetime Dorothy Ravin, 25, daughter of a Jewish tailor, whom he married seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Coal Budget | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

With the horse safely stolen, Gray, the Bowdoin hurler, decided to lock the door, and thereafter limited the Crimson to four hits and one run. Chauncey opened the third with a single, and Barbee drove him home with the second of his three hits. Except for this inning, Gray kept the Crimson allotment of hits per inning to one or less, and his teammates played tight ball behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBEE SUPREME AS CRIMSON WINS | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

...profess to know exactly what will be the consequences of the answers which they have received. It is possible that a revision of the course of study will be contemplated if warranted by the returns. The revision, if it comes, will probably be away from the present "lock-step system of education," as President Angell put it, and toward an approximation of the English system of honors and pass courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE CONDUCTS SELF-SEARCHING ANALYSIS BY QUESTIONNAIRES GIVEN TO STUDENTS--PLANS ATTACK ON LOCK-STEP EDUCATION | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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