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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to send our new booklet to a select list of girls. . . . You likely know of some such girls in your town or elsewhere, and can send their names and addresses to me for this purpose (confidentially, if you prefer not to be quoted). We shall appreciate the courtesy and reciprocate with the usual honorarium of $25 for each girl you list who may attend Glen Eden through this information; or $50 if the attendance be consummated with the help of your personal influence. Our school and myself being perhaps unknown to you, may I suggest reference...
...would much prefer to listen to the roar of an aeroplane engine than to the drone of a saxophone. And as for partners--well, she'd "rather step out to a jig with an aviator than with a Harvard man." In fact, the University boys who attend such affairs amuse her. She would choose the company of pilots and mechanics...
...present Government [Conservative] is concerned," twinkled Liberal Lloyd George, "I prefer to rely on the latter alternative...
...study of the arts and sciences by financial consideration is to forget completely the cultural motive behind these studies. Were Mr. Clark's state regulation to operate, learning for its own sake might easily be pushed aside, and universities become mere factories to feed professional ranks. One would prefer to find the remedy for the conditions which Mr. Clark discovers in a gradual adjustment of the supply of college men to the natural demands of the various vocational fields. And until more evidence for the opposition is adduced, it is not likely that the present reliance on a rugged individualism...
Third was Dr. Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan. Smooth-faced, brown-eyed, athletic, this churchman, too, seemed to prefer the diocese in which he found himself, and declined...