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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Cole explained that in the past, candidates for honors often wrote 100 to 150 typewritten pages. Believing that a long thesis would influence their rank favorably, they were tempted to put material from secondary sources in their theses, minimizing the amount of original work acquired from their own thinking or research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESES TO BE MARKED ON MERIT BASIS HEREAFTER | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett ("Polly and her Pals") and Editor Bertie Charles Forbes of Forbes' Magazine, with whom he plays checkers. Cartoonist Marcus used to work for the old-time New York Herald, often illustrating the stories of a fast-and-furious red-headed court reporter named Herbert Bayard Swope?now fast-and-furious executive editor of the New York World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which contains the sweet though unrevealing phrase, "Wherever we were, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Rosika Schwimmer, 55, is a plump, cultured Hungarian Jewess. She was once Hungarian Minister to Switzerland. Often she has visited and lectured in the U. S. In 1915 she helped organize Henry Ford's peace ship. Several times she has unsuccessfully tried to become a U. S. citizen (TIME, July11, Oct. 24, 1927). She has always denied that she would bear arms for the U. S., adding that she understood that was not required of women. But judges have considered that her oath of allegiance would be vitiated by her unwillingness to carry a defensive musket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Justice v. Schwimmer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service, was brave enough to be pessimistic about reported cures of leprosy. He was for long director of the Leprosy Research Station at Molokai. As others, he injected chaulmoogra oil into the veins of lepers. The oil caused the lepers terrific pain. Often they fought against its use. Yet it seemed to stop the rodent, rotting, eating course of the disease. Chaulmoogra oil and its esters are the only medicines doctors know to treat leprosy. It is not a cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leprosy Missionaries | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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