Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since he first began to feed the squirrels in the Yard, and haunt the shades of Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...Reading Period more conducive to to intellectual independence on the part of the students, and a more definite departure from the prevalent spoon-feeding methods in American education might be devised. Of the possibilities which are open I mention two. First, a student might, by arrangement with his department, or tutor, or both, investigate into a field which interests him and which the pressure of course work does not allow him to pursue in the regular session. Second, as has been suggested in several courses, students might read in some special topic connected with the subject of a course. Louis...
...Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...
Navy men, considering themselves guardians of all this wealth, not to mention the 400 billions heaped up in the U. S., think that a couple of hundred millions per annum for five years is a very modest sum for them to ask for new equipment. Walter Bruce Howe, ardent president of the Navy League, exclaims: "The price of one picture show from every American each year, in addition to the present Naval budget, would provide the difference nicely...
Speaking for the Liberal Opposition, onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George blamed the Government for omitting to mention the "disastrous failure" of the Foreign Office in permitting a breakdown of the Anglo-U. S. negotiations at the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...