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Word: pamphleteers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days before I arrived in Cambridge to begin my Freshman year, I received a pamphlet from the "Advocate", telling me how to make a success of college. But when I found that no mention was made in it of the value of studying, I was greatly puzzled. Does it not seem from the advice given here, I thought, that college is a place where one is to devote all his time and energy to gaining distinction in everything but studies, an end in itself rather than a preparation for service to humanity and personal accomplishment in later life? I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLDS EMINENCE IN STUDY SHOULD REPLACE EXTRA-CURRICULUM FAME AS GOAL OF UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITY IN COLLEGE WORLD | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...pamphlet published by the CRIMSON in 1923 many of the fields of concentration were described for the benefit of Freshmen by members of those respective departments. Copies of this pamphlet may be procured at Room 2A, University Hall. The revision by Dean Chase is intended as the first of a number of articles to supplement the pamphlet. Fields unmentioned in the pamphlet will be discussed by members of those faculties hitherto underrepresented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALLS CONCENTRATION A GUARD AGAINST FRESHMAN KNOWLEDGE OF MANY SUBJECTS | 3/12/1925 | See Source »

...student in selecting those volumes which appeal to his present interest. Today the average student concentrating in government, for example, may have but the vaguest idea as to what writings are best in the fields of music, or astronomy, or art. With such a bibliography printed in a convenient pamphlet form that huge bulk Widener would at once become what it now is only to the exceptional--a treasure trove of knowledge and a mine of stimulating ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CULTURAL STIMULI--WHY NOT? | 2/7/1925 | See Source »

...onetime candidate for President of the United States. Yet history books make little or no mention of her. By name she is Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, now in her 87th year. Complete and reliable accounts of her life are rare, but the following outline is gleaned from a pamphlet published by one of her supporters several decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Astounding Benefactress | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...other advocates of simplified spelling in the U.S. -namely, that of making a whole people unlearn the teachings of its childhood. Last week's issue of Science (news pamphlet for scientists) contained comment by Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution(Washington, D. C). Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Russia | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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