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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justifies the people's faith in democracy. They feel that Wall Street and Main Street look the same to him. They note that his idea seems to be the simple one of giving an honest and practical people as honest and practical a government as he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War and Peace | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...this all the essays deal more or less with books and their great value as friends, companions, educators. Most of the pieces are not very profound, and the less fortunate ones are but thinly disguised book advertisements. Dog Corner is evidently the country home of the author, and the main characters of the volume are he, his wife Margaretta, Anne, his somewhat phenomenal five-year old daughter, and the terrier, Michael...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOG CORNER PAPERS by William Whitman, 3rd. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1927. $1.50. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...French 15 Emerson F Geology 10 Rotch Bldg. German 2 IV Sever 18 German 21 Sever 30 German 26a Sever 35 Government 25a Sever 18 Government 27a Sever17 Greek A Sever 29 Greek G I Sever 30 History 23a History 30a Abbott-Bruce Harvard 3 Campopiano-McMaster Harvard 5 Main-Youngman Harvard 6 Indic Philology 2 Sever 35 Mathematics G Sever 35 Mathematics 10a Sever 36 Music 3 Aisner-Kaplan Sever 23 Landers-Zevitas Sever 24 Philosophy 6a Emerson J Philosophy 9c Emerson J Philosophy 17b Emerson A Physics B Emerson D Physics 1 Sever 5 Physics 17a Batchelder-Packard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDYEAR EXAMINATIONS | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Turning the conversation to Greco Roman cities, he said that the excavations on the east side of the Jordan River, 60 miles from Jerusalem, were very illuminating. The whole city of Gerasa is being uncovered. Architecturally beautiful Corinthean columns of temples, sidewalks on the main street, and a public drinking fountain are well preserved. Among the ruins of an early Christian church a marble head representing a "Man of Sorrows" was found. The resemblance of this piece of sculpture to familiar representations of Christ in medieval France brings up important questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARSTANG STATES THAT SIX AMERICAN PARTIES ARE ASIAN EXCAVATORS | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...increasing and raising the standards of facilities for education, were it possible to make the University self-supporting through its members. As it is Harvard can be thankful for being the most richly endowed university in the country, a situation which allows it to remain independent in the main of athletic domination and promiscuous begging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH FINANCE | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

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