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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some or insulting others. Every Freshman is an individual--even before he is a Freshman. When he comes to Harvard he is in no way urged to yield up that individuality merely for the sake of conforming. There are either three thousand types of Harvard graduates or there is none. The Harvard type is a phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas, but he will leave as much an individual as when he first entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRST YEAR | 9/22/1927 | See Source »

...political economists care, and of all political economists, none cares more intensely than Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton of Cleveland. Dr. Hatton has taught poli- tical science at Western Reserve University since 1907, has served on Cleveland's city council since 1924. When he announced last week that he was leaving Cleveland, the reason was his deep interest in good city government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curing Cities | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...remains forbidden. 2) Every dispute of whatever nature arising between states or nations cannot be settled except by pacific means. In consequence, the Assembly urges members of the League to take action on these declarations and conform to their principles in their mutual relations. The powers would have none of it; it was too definite. Poland modified the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly Meeting | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Quantum Theory. Some 200 mathematical physicists listened, perhaps none of them with understanding, to the address of Dr. W. Heisenberg, young German, on the quantum theory of the structure of the universe. The quantum theory, as originated three decades ago by Dr. Max Planck, denies the existence of matter, as commonly conceived, replacing it with energy in basic units called quanta. As modified by Dr. Heisenberg, quanta depart entirely from such reality as can be apprehended by the senses, becoming terms in pure mathematics. Like the first few people to understand Dr. Albert Einstein, the Heisenberg enthusiasts agreed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Leeds | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...none can believe it is all as simple as that. Mr. Oppenheim has been writing stories ever since he can remember. His father, though he never published anything, was a story-teller before him and used to make the small Oppenheims each write out a story on Christmas Eve. Mr. Oppenheim, the father, wrote one himself. All the stories were read and voted on next day. The father's story always won the prize, until Edward Phillips Oppenheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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