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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestions worked out in these committees, and decided upon by the Council are carried out by the permanent offices of the C. I. E. At the present time there are such permanent offices in Brussels where the central office is located and in London, where is placed the main office of the Travel Department with a continental branch in Paris. The latter was instituted especially for the convenience of the American tours which are to take place this summer. The Commission of Sports is in Paris: the Bureau of Scientific Motion Picture Films in Zurich, and a Bureau of exchange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFEDERATION TO SPONSOR STUDENT OLYMPIAD AT ROME IN 1927 WRITES DEAK | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

...German schools have many excellent and effective methods of teaching English. They somewhat resemble those used in America, but are much more systematic. Their instruction is placed under four main heads--vocabulary, grammar, translation into German, and translation into English, together with home work. A detailed account of the methods used would be tiresome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Fritz Kellermann Contrasts German and American Methods of Scholarship-Believes Teutonic Standards to be the Higher | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

...Council of the C. I. E. is made up of the representatives of these National Unions, each of which send five delegates to the Council. This main Council meets once a year in the capitol of one of the countries which are members of the organization. The Council then appoints committees to investigate problems of international interests and make reports and recommendations, which are then considered by the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAPID GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENTS OF STUDENTS UNIONS PICTURED BY DEAK | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

Complete accommodations will be maintained in the library for 2,000 readers. The general plan is to have the main floor rooms used for those who are acquiring knowledge rather than creating it, while the Book Tower is intended for the creative scholar. In these 22 floors no shelf will be more than seven feet high. In the 50 rooms of the tower there will be over 400 desks where professors, graduate students and visiting scholars may study and keep their books and papers in privacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE'S NEW MEMORIAL LIBRARY WILL RIVAL HARKNESS' TOWERS BY 1928 | 3/11/1926 | See Source »

...third main stream or type of the white races is "Mediterranean", short, dark, brachycephalic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old American | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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