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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special subjects, such, among others, as library training. If, however, the purpose of this latest idea is to cultivate an instinctive love of books and reading, it might be accomplished much more effectively by personal suggestion, and a closer cooperation between library and school boards, than by routine mass instruction. To paraphrase a trite proverb, anyone can lead the student to a book, but only his own inclinations can induce him to develop a genuine taste for reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVERTING THE LIGHTNING | 4/23/1924 | See Source »

...respect of age. Mr. Burton, 73, is surpassed by Speaker Gillett, two months Ins senior, by Representative Fuller (Ill.) 74, Representative Dickinson (Mo.) 75, Representative Greene (Mass.) 83, Representative Graham (Pa.) 74, Representative Stedman (N. C.) 83, Representative Sherwood (Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Two Per Cent | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Proponents of the Institute of Foreign Affairs at the University of Chicago have been at great pains to exalt its merits at the expense of the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago vs. Williamstown | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Women. Captain, Mrs. George Wightman of Brookline, Mass,; Helen Wills of Berkeley, Calif., national champion; Eleanor Goss of Manhattan, third ranking player; Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup of Wilmington, Del. Alternates: Lilian Scharman of Brooklyn; Leslie Bancroft and Edith Sigourney of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Teams | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE VETERANS' BUREAU- Senators Reed (Pa.) (Chairman), Oddie, Walsh (Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Searchers | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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