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The hour examinations as conducted at present cover the work done in a period of four or five weeks. In that time the student has adjusted himself to the mechanics of the course and little more. The actual knowledge he has assimilated or is even supposed to have assimilated is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLEAK NOVEMBERS | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

With laconic precision, the King declared the new Assembly open. The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Assembly Opened | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

He, Maler Ludwig Koch of Austria, had been invited by the U. S. Polo Association, members of which had heard him spoken of abroad as "the finest painter of horses in the world," to come to the U. S. and make pictures of the International Polo matches. The Association urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painter | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

One of the brightest spots of the afternoon, for the Harvard side of the Stadium at least, was the playing of the Harvard Band. Displaying a snap and precision, a rhythm, having besides, a drum major who did not fear the regulation size baton, the Crimson Band, deported itself in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY'S HIGH NOTE | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

President Eliot added: "Knowing the difficulties of observing with precision over a long period of restrictions of a definite or detailed character especially as regards the purchase of books, I should expect that some latitude would be used in interpreting the scope of each of the subjects specified, and I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reproduction of Bookplate to Mark Eliot Memorial Volumes | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

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