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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented to the Yale faculty yesterday by the student council was the division in the student body that it recommended. After the second year, under the proffered plan, men who choose to elect honors will receive a distinctive degree, and be differentiated in privilege and work from those who prefer to complete their studies in the usual manner. This suggested discrimination is a direct result of the finding that the majority of the undergraduates, gentlemen but not scholars, neither desire, nor are capable of any great scholastic accomplishment, that their study shares their interest with a number of legitimate pursuits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS AT YALE | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

Lane Bryant, dressmaker made rich by the stout women she has dressed stylishly, addresses her customers intimately: "On most subjects I prefer to speak modestly, for there is so much in life that is yet to be learned, so much that is yet to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stout Women | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...neither language being learned well is often great. As long as Harvard cannot require that two languages be mastered by her students, there is little value in her requiring that two be at least dabbled in. Opportunity will always remain for the aspirant to bilingural attainments--many others would prefer to concentrate on perfecting their knowledge of a single tongue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMPULSORY SMATTERING | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

...Such is the official English translation of Reich (realm or empire) which most democratic Germans would prefer, however, to translate "republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hindenburg's Ballot | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

This book is longer and, we think, better than "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Writing about herself, Lorelei was too close to her subject. Writing about Dorothy, she loses much of the tinkling prattle and gains that large and impartial frankness one affects in criticising one's friends. The difference is, that this is biography, where the other was autobiography. Personal confessions are always good, but not so good as revelations made by somebody else...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: A Dark Lady. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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