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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Doctor Frank P. Graves, Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, college entrance requirements are not complex enough. To the bewildered applicant the appalling program of examinations and the mass of official documents which must be signed and sworn to before one is formally approved, seem sufficient for the most exacting bureaucrat. But not for Doctor Graves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOATS OR SHEEP? | 1/14/1925 | See Source »

...Island, no black shells were dropped therein, but nonetheless 21 of her citizens went forth, last June, into exile, saying they feared for their lives. Last week, the exiles returned, their Odyssey completed, though one had visited Erebus never to return, and another tarried with the Lottophagi-in Worcester, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home, Sweet Providence | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Republican Senators, 21 incontinently fled the state. They settled just across the border at Rutland, Mass. They remained there. The Bartlett House, where they were staying in the summer, found it worth while to put in steam heat to accommodate them when winter came on. One Senator died. Another, a former divine, became a lecturer at Worcester and is not expected ever to return. The others lived amicably in sun and shade at the expense of the Republican State Committee-an expense estimated at from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home, Sweet Providence | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Mary Lyman Eliot Guild, 96, elder sister of Charles W. Eliot, famed President Emeritus of Harvard University; in Brookline, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 12, 1925 | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued himself cracking over an impregnable service for two hard sets. The third set drew out to deuce, to 6-all, to 7-all. Frail Horace bit his lip, clung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lads | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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