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Chicago public school teachers were told that class hours are for teaching, not for pow-wowing. Since September, 1922, it had been their custom to hold council meetings among themselves at times when pupils were in school. Last week, William, McAndrew, vigorous new Chicago School Superintendent (TIME, Sept. 15), asked to know: 1) what advantage was lost by holding council meetings at other than school time; 2) what was gained by the teachers' excluding the Principals from councils. When Mr. McAndrew appealed to the Chicago Board of Education, showing that, though the teachers' meetings were valuable, the city...
Last month, when the Sino-Russian pow-wow was on in Peking, Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, U. S. Minister to China, wrote to American-educated Dr. V. K Wellington Koo, Chinese Foreign Minister, and requested the Chinese Government to see that the foreign interests in the Railway were protected...
President Hopkins is known to be in favor of anything that stirs up the mind of the undergraduate. At a recent speech before the National Dartmouth Pow-Wow at Chicago he said: "If Lenine and Trotsky were available, I certainly would bring them into the faculty. I know no man and no interest I would not present if this would stir up the mind of the undergraduate." Open-mindedness, the ability to think, and the formation of personal convictions are, according to him, the most cherished aims of a liberal college and the greatest need of the hour...
...first-year Law School courts of the Ames competition nine arguments will be held tonight. The clubs competing are: Pow-Wow vs. Pollock, James Bryce vs. Hudson, Parsons vs. White. Kales vs. Kent, Marshall vs. Parke, Chafee vs. Carter, Edward-Warren vs. Ellenborough, Jay vs. Jeremiah Smith, Lowell vs. Mansfield...
...first eight being the winners: Club Points Pct. Parsons 31 1.000 Holmes 29 1.000 Kent-Marshall 28 1.000 Scott 28 .750 James Bryce 26 .750 Mansfield-Warren 25 1/2 .750 Taft 21 1/2 .750 Ames-Gray 25 1/2 .500 Westengard 24 .500 Choate 23 .500 Pound 23 .500 Pow Wow 16 .333 George Gray 25 .250 Harlan 17 .250 Hudson 17 .250 Lowell 17 .250 Williston 17 .250 Pollock 18 .250 Ellen Borough...