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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours for luncheon and dinner which at present obtain in the Freshman halls seem to be all that may reasonably be expected in the new Houses. They satisfy virtually all requirements and a further extension would only complicate the matter of service...
...fact that breakfast is at present the least attended meal in the Freshman Dormitories indicates that an extension of this hour is very desirable. The rapid cafeteria-like service promised by the proposed buffet system should also increase the popularity of the House move...
...American Caravan, first appearing in 1927, put out by its present board of editors and Critic Van Wyck Brooks, aimed to provide a "literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...
...seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically in one of the subdivisions...
...death of M. Georges Clemenceau marks the transition of international politics from the hysterical period of the Great War to the more balanced and sane present. The "Tiger" with his energetic and forceful personality stood for the impetus which directed France through the most disorganizing experience in her history. Whether or not he was always aware of ethics is doubtful, but he did attain...