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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of the transition period that faces the great majority of students after graduation have long been realized but definite assumption on the part of the colleges of the responsibility for helping to reduce them has been tardy in appearing. At Harvard the situation has been met in the past rather haphazardly, and the report of the Student Council can be taken as evidence of a gratifying movement towards systematization...
...offers to teach men confused by the freedom of college the proper methods of correlating and assimilating the information given out in books and lectures. Proper recognition of such unselfish effort may scarcely be expected, but there are many to whom this work has been a boon in the past who will be grateful for the proposed extension of the present admirable aims of this organization...
...past two years, however, the Firestone Rubber Co. has obtained a concession for the establishment of rubber plantations within the republic. This will mean the opening up of the whole area, the establishment of a great industry, and the employment of thousands of natives who have had hitherto little or no contact with civilization. The inevitable result of such an enterprise will be the development of the economic resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction...
...last in the cold blue eyes of Lynn Hamilton, a personable youth who had returned from the outside world to his Ohio farm. Quietly they planned a marriage which Sophie contemplated as a cure to her restlessness. But the black-eyed prodigal, son of the village doctor, thundered past her white bride's house on swift racing horses and lured her. And Sophie, hesitating, wondering, hoping he might have the answer Lynn had failed to give, staggered out to him in the stormy night, escaped with him to the great outside. Yet even in the escaping she knew that...
This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...