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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that; then he must distribute, or minor, in other courses, taken from prescribed combinations of subjects. The first will make him profound; the second will make him broad. In most cases, however, he must have studied a certain amount of Latin or Greek, to make him classical, and modern languages in certain combinations to make him erudite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...Exeter--Modern Maidens (Crawford); Greene Murder Case (Powell). 2.15 to 10.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON AMUSEMENTS | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...Modern--Charming Sinners (Chatterton); Whispering Winds. 9 to 10.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON AMUSEMENTS | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

Last year the Division of Ancient and Modern Languages gave its examinations on the Bible, Shakespere, and Ancient and Modern Authors on October 10, 11, 12. This year they will be given on September 30, 31, and October 1, 2. The Division gave out information of the change only through chance notices posted on billboards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONAL EXAMINATIONS | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...them is too obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force to meet the higher cost of living. It is, of course, impossible to offer the teacher, whether in the academic or professional school, a salary which will attract men and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

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