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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birth at West Hills, L. I. The celebration culminated in an announcement by the Walt Whitman Foundation of its plan to establish "a liberal college of arts and sciences" in memory of the poet. One of the aims of the college will be to help modern U. S. poets obtain publication of their works. Camden was where Poet Whitman spent the twilight of his life...
...several departments; on that account some heads are seeking advice from their present classes as to whether or not the system seems to them, having taken the course--or at least being in at the death, advisable in the particular instance. Now there is nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer...
...their understanding of the intricate and often non-sensational problems they are called on to solve. Not that many senators, representatives and presidents have no knowledge of these governmental problems--many of them have. But it is not this knowledge which endears them to the voters. And to obtain and hold office the voter and his local needs are an almost all-important consideration...
Prowler Beebe captured many a specimen at night, aided by a 2,000-candlepower electric lamp, which attracted ocean-dwellers within netting range. Some fish, however, are repelled by fight. For these, dynamite was brought into play. Landlocked pools were poisoned to obtain their denizens. Some species, friendly but coy, Mr. Beebe captured by shooting tiny harpoons into them from a Daisy air rifle...
...college? God for bid that we should ever be allowed to forget it. The Herald notes with a great deal if interest that the University of Miami, age one year, whose Freshman class of 200 attends classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development concern, seeks to obtain a fund of $500,000 to build up a football stadium...