Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note as well a marked improvement in the LETTERS, those in the issue of April 23 being especially noted by intelligence and common sense on the part of several writers, Francis A. Thompson, John C. Wright, J. F. Bassett, particularly one by Thomas O. Marvin. I agree in the main with R. W. Graham, but the most effective way to deal with Heflin is to apply Irvin Cobb's "The Thunders of Silence," thus removing him from the pages of every newspaper of consequence. By ignoring him you obliterate him, to the relief of the nation...
President Lowell will address the Class of 1931 when it assembles at the annual Freshman Smoker this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Main Living Room of the Harvard Union...
...main purpose of requiring two years of graduate study for the degree of Master of Education, which is the chief feature of the new program, was to select as candidates for the degree only those who intended to take seriously the business of securing professional preparation for careers in educational work. The step was a radical one in view of the fact that only one state requires graduate work in preparation for teaching in secondary schools, but the Faculty felt, nevertheless, that it should act firmly in the belief that education is a profession which should require and reward serious...
...House Flood Control Committee, insisted upon local contributions of sites for levees and floodways. With equal insistence, the Committee-led by Reid of Illinois, Whittington of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas, Wilson of Louisiana-would hear of no local contributions except, perhaps, sites for the bases of levees on the main stream of the Mississippi...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...