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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary that each reader read each word in each advertisement. But let no reader count himself a cover-to-cover man unless he at least casts his eye upon the main headline of each and every advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dutch | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...main question at issue is the status of the triple agreement, the 'Big Three.' The Princetonian feels that the time has come for an examination to determine just what that title implies--with a view either to strengthening the thing itself or doing away with it immediately, entirely, once for all. Admittedly it is a triumvirate; a triumvirate, thoroughly worth preserving, provided each of the three members can maintain a healthy and sportsmanlike attitude. But if as a few Harvard men would have us believe, one of the parties to the agreement is disgruntled or for any reason desires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETONIAN ASKS FINAL EXPLANATION | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

Memorials built by public subscription are too often futile. In this case, fortunately, the contrary is true. Joseph Conrad had two main occupations in life: he sailed the seas and he wrote books. If he is to be honored with a concrete evidence of popular esteem it should be, certainly, something which will benefit sailors. No one claims that the sailor on shore leave is going to spend all of his time brousing in the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library. Nevertheless the institution will open up vast worlds to those of their number who have never read any of Conrad. Simply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CONRAD MEMORIAL | 11/4/1926 | See Source »

...conference will be subdivided into ten committees dealing with minor problems pertinent to the main point of discussion. Joseph Prendergast, President of the Senior class and of the Senior Council, and a member of the University football team at Princeton, with M. A. Cheek Jr. '26, Captain of the 1925 football team and Marshal of his graduating class, will lead the discussions on Athletics. Miss Dorothy Mason, President of the Student Government Association of Wellesley, and C. G. Gleaves, prominent undergraduate at the University of Virginia, will preside at the committee meetings concerning the Honor System and Student Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND CONGRESS OF N.S.F.A. WILL BE HELD IN DECEMBER | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...speakers at the gathering in December, the Federation has been fortunate in procuring President MacCracken of Vassar, Professor Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, and President Little of Michigan. These men will present various views upon the main topics of the Congress The Function of a University, The Influence of Extra-Curricula Activities upon College Life, The Place of Athletics in Education. Nor are these subjects which fail either in suggestiveness or practicality. If the undergraduate is to share in the development of his own institution of learning in a same and constructive fashion, these are topics vital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FEDERATION CONGRESS | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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