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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write legibly, to use numbers correctly. These have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what Mr. Butler says about our plumbing for the full and free expression among the school children is sound. Sound is his protest against our forgetting the principle that every generation can only climb higher by standing...
...Geological Conference will hold a joint meeting at 8 tonight in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the Geological Museum. Professor R. A. Daly will speak on some of his recent work on "Post-Glacial Tilting of Newfoundland," and Professor W. M. Davis will discuss "Theories of the Origin of the Pacific Ocean Coral Reefs...
...military origin, founded upon the history of battles, the Legion is nevertheless essentially civic in its purpose. It takes questions of citizenship, of ready and unflagging loyalty, of steady and watchful Americanism, as the leading objects of its attention. It supplies a unique example of a body of soldiers whose chief interest lies in the maintenance of the civic as opposed to the martial idea. The soldiership which it exemplifies is the citizen soldiership, which stands for the patriotism of the school and the ballot box as well as the patriotism of the tented field...
...minutes before 1 o'clock the Ambassador, accompanied by his secretary, Geisser Celesia di Vegliasco, by the Italian Consul at Boston, Gustavo di Rosa, and by a group of members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and prominent Bostonians of Italian origin, arrived at University Hall. In the absence of President Lowell, who was out of town, the party was welcomed by Dean L.B.R. Briggs '75 of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean Charles H. Haskins of the Graduate School, and Francis W. Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Corporation...
...McSweeney that is important, but his obviously hyphenated attitude, an attitude which tends more every day to become characteristic of the politicians who imagine that they may thus appeal to American citizens of Irish origin. If we are to have a nation we must forget all sorts of hyphenated Americanism. They hyphen is bad simply because it is a hyphen. The last things that the vast majority of Americans want, or can afford, or ought to have, is a war with Great Britain. However just the cause of any other country may be, there stands above it the cause...