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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leland Stanford and Johns Hopkins is concerned. He has overlooked its high usefulness as a weapon for the protection of the arts college and the "scholarly amateur" from a mass of applicants who are not yet fitted for higher "cultural" education and who, by their very presence inevitably lower standards and contribute to that mass production which every enlightened educational leader is trying to get away from today...
...requirements in state or endowed institutions, which they represent, some such institution as the Junior College is necessary. Giving a two-year course and an A. A. degree it should be a unit in itself and not merely a step toward a professionalized college. Into it would flow that lower third in private colleges and that lower half in state colleges who usually drop out after the first two years anyway under the present system and who are adapted to further general education beyond high school but who are not as assailable in the four year arts college...
Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
Last week Edvin Wide, onetime Swedish schoolteacher, met Lloyd Hahn of Boston in a special one-mile race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Wide, conqueror of Nurmi, had freely predicted that he would lower the world's record for the event, leave Hahn thoroughly behind in the operation...
...offerings, often silver and gold models of the man or the part of his body saved through the intervention of Mary.§ Those most devout reported that they had seen miracles, seen blood flowing from the statues of the Virgin, seen her eyes weeping in sorrow, seen her head lower or her hand raise in benediction. Over all Europe good Catholics lifted up their voices in "Ave Marias" as they counted out their prayers on well-worn rosaries...