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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along the U. S. border. Without the need of striking a final blow, bull-necked General and War Minister Calles occupied Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Beneficial Insurrection | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's undergraduate daily, The CRIMSON, has made some pointed remarks about the administration's general attitude towards publicity. While it admits that Harvard does not need any advertising yet it says "People are interested in Harvard, among them 50,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information, they should at least be spared the misapprehensions and irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation." The CRIMSON declares Harvard has lost the enrollment of hundreds of worthy men who have been attracted to other universities as a result of misrepresentations in the press and popular traditions bred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

...takes its place along with the ten thousands that the Divisional and the Reading Period have slain. Some Seniors have survived the first, and have gone; some are suffering the second, and stay; in neither case are there classes to attend, and so, reasons the Senior, there is no need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming even more amorphous, gives up for the present the claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACK MAJESTY | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...laboratory equipment for the study of science keeps pace with the needs of the University, it is to be hoped that those in charge of the apparatus will enable the student body to obtain the maximum benefit from the improvements. Great as is the need for up to date laboratories, it would seem also important that they should be available for use in the evening by men whose afternoons must otherwise be dedicated to laboratory work. The example of Dartmouth goes to show that evening laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO SCIENTIA | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

...lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth" Not only must she be the first lady of a University, but the first lady "culturally" of a City which, perhaps faster than any other in the world, is gyrating toward cultural coherence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Age Ignored | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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