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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educational Needs. Dr. Nathan P. Colwell, Secretary of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, defined the present needs of medical education in the U. S. as: 1) more care in selecting or retaining as teachers those who possess adequate training in pedagogy and in the subjects which they propose to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Annual Congress | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...redoubtable Pite seemed to possess a mania for shooting whenever he got his hands on the ball and his desire for individual glory hampered his team's progress. The Yale attack improved, however, as the game aged and the excellent play of Suisman and Haas cut down the Crimson lead. Rudofsky countered with two baskets, one after receiving a bullet-like pass from Smith, and Harvard was ahead 15 to 12 at half time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE RALLY CARRIES DAY IN SECOND HALF | 2/16/1924 | See Source »

...exceptional approach to the subject, in that they are more critical of style, and better acquainted with the technical problems involved than are our students at Princeton, who are more apt to take the historical view. Some of the students in my courses here have seemed to me to possess an independence and precision of criticism that approaches mature connoisseurship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exchange Professor From Princeton Praises Critical Skill and Technical Ability of Students at Harvard | 2/14/1924 | See Source »

...Cullagh went on to say that killings are still the order of the day and that in May 1923, 100 people were shot. "The official statistics I do not possess, but I know the terror still reigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Trail of Lenin | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Philadelphia will soon possess a great music school, an institution which will take rank with the greatest of the German schools of past years, the present Conservatoire of France, maintained by the French Government or any institution of musical learning in this country. The new school will be known as the Curtis Institute of Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D'Alvarez vs. Hammerstein | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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