Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward W. Starling, presidential vacation-home seeker (TIME, May 16), inspected the Franklin Floete estate, offered for the President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian...
...existence of the British Commonwealth Fund, sixty-three Fellows have been sent to this country to study, ten of whom have elected to take up their academic pursuits in Cambridge. Next year four out of the twenty newly appointed Fellows will be in residence at the University for a period of two years...
...that can wait for the afternoon. In the morning, literature seems to hold most attractions. In Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock for example--perish the thought of arising before then--Professor Murdock will speak on American poetry of the period from 1870 to 1900, just when poets in this country were turning from Emerson and Longfellow and entering what for want of a better term can be called the modern phase. At the same hour incidently, Professor Baxter will speak on. "The United States and International Arbitration" a subject which has to say the least, great possibilities. This lecture...
Since the number of students wishing to complete their requirements for the Bachelor's Degree at the Mid-year period has declined to a mere score, there is sufficient cause besides that of a striving for improvement for the elimination of the February General Examinations. Undoubtedly the various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would...
...influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There is no preface that explains that the author is very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history...