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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only to be known to be beloved. Properly to interpret a nation it might be necessary sometimes to persuade its statesmen to words or deeds not originally their own. The Lawson idea thus combined pedagogy with journalism. As executed by its chief agent, Pundit Bell, the Lawson idea has often raised resentment in the breasts of other, more shirtsleeve newsmen. From his contacts with statesmen, Pundit Bell long ago contracted the habit of talking like one. Where a few journalists are gathered together, he unconsciously addresses them as an oracle from some other world. There is something obnoxious to workaday...
...Every so often, newspaperdom becomes agitated over Free Publicity, which is the game between producers and publishers. When the two sides are evenly matched, producers get themselves or their products or services mentioned in public print, without charge, in exact proportion to their news value. Determining that value is, of course, almost entirely up to the publisher. A potent factor, however, is retaining the producer's goodwill so that he will buy advertising space. Feuds arising out of the Free Publicity game are often as not entirely within the publisher's province, between the advertising and editorial departments...
Herr Stresemann uttered no word. Chairman Adatci of Japan had already persuaded the Council to accept unanimously a compromise minorities plan, having three main features: 1) The Council's subcommittee on Minorities shall make its proceedings public; 2) shall meet more often; 3) and in case of a world-shaking dispute shall have its members increased from three to four. Herr Stresemann's challenge was only a warning that Germany would consider this plan purely temporary...
...very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give...
...often that the library has occasion to start a wholly new classification, but this has been made possible this year by a gift of several hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor...