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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seek to train business executives and be satisfied with nothing less. Otherwise it forfeits its right to stand on the same level with the older professional schools. Its graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAY TRACES RAPID RISE OF SCHOOL TO PRESENT POSITION | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

...often called to the attention of Harvard men that one of the greatest and most important facilities offered them is a practically unrivaled group of libraries. Having undoubtedly the most comprehensive and complete university library in the world, rating fifth in size even with state institutions, it offers one of the strongest inducements to prospective Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY FACILITIES | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

...agree with R. E. Connolley, Esq., Letters, Aug. 26. Often one wonders if TIME is afraid of the Cinema business circulation curse. For instance the feeble attempt to repeat the facts when covering Cock-Eyed World in the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter Huston who last week delighted Manhattan in person in The Commodore Marries (see p. 18). While this couple are buffeted about by the vicissitudes of their liaison, chiefly consisting of the lawyer's bumptious children, they often run afoul of the lawyer's drinking crony (Charles Ruggles). Anyone who has ever laughed at drolleries induced by the decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests the use of a dictaphone. Best shot: Claudette Colbert being told by her lover that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...city adolescents a dance hall, by any name, is a place to go and have fun, often the only place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dance Halls Surveyed | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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