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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Episcopalians have remained above the Fundamentalist-Modernist rows, especially in Britain. Their chief unrest concerns merging the national Church of England with some older communion-Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. Suggestions that they merge with some one of the re¬formed sects have been coldly received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestants | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...close attention of older polo players to the development of the sport in colleges reaches its culmination in the Intercollegiate Polo Championship, which begins Saturday at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY RIDERS TO OPEN POLO TOURNAMENT | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

...twenty eighth meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. It is pleasant to find a significance in this entertainment by the lusty young western city of representative of America's oldest and most distinguished university. The guests who come to Chicago today can claim an academic tradition 201 years older than Chicago as a city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...than their parents. Father has trouble getting the gears to mesh properly in hurried traffic, and mother is eternally leaving the ignition switch unturned while the starter grinds on and on. All this is indicative of an hypothesis: young men and women have mechanical sense superior to that of older men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Monstrous | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...calibre of the men selected. When faced with the task of guiding a dozen Freshmen through the perils of their first weeks in college, the honor of being on a committee of seventy may soon evaporate. But there remains an opportunity for service not everywhere available. The older student has an invaluable store of experience in undergraduate problems, the selection of courses or of activities. If he cares to be generous with his time, he may have the satisfaction of seeing his wards piloted to the haven of sophisticated security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GENEROUS OPPORTUNITY | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

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