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...first time since its nineteenth century founding the historic CRIMSON will invite the ladies of the University to contribute to its pages, beginning next Tuesday evening. News stories of interest to co-eds will be the most desired form of contribution, but girls with a flair for columns or even Vagabonds may be allowed to try a hand...
President Conant investigated the frontier condition of American society during the nineteenth century to clarify the concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
...When the history of American education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries comes to be written, the development of the state-supported universities will be the dominant theme. The tremendous growth of these institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...attempt to resolve the pros and cons of the two controversies, Dr. Selekman pointed out that the problems of the shorter work-week and patent rights both are aspects of long term developments in the United States. The trend toward shorter hours, he said, goes back to the nineteenth century beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the issues raised by patent pools and monopolies are a part of the American trust breaking tradition that extends unbroken from the days of President Andrew Jackson to Thurman Arnold...
Included are a number of pieces of twelfth and thirteenth century Chinese pottery known as Chun and they are second to none both in quality and quantity. Some 300 examples of elaborate eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese jades and crystal's constitute the main body of the collection. Their variety of shape, beauty of color and diversity of ornament make this group, Museum officials state, of unusual interest to art lovers and petroologists...