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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eating clubs and they are social clubs. It was seen as early us 1908 that the clubs had developed in unforeseen manner and with no controlling influence. If Princeton authorities made no efforts to provide proper food or proper surroundings for students but merely furnished classrooms and faculty, the problem would hardly be one for discussion. The eating clubs would be entirely independent and a law unto themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/15/1928 | See Source »

...mind are rare. Different is the case with the Arts and Sciences men; their goal is vague, indefinite. In consequence many men now leaning toward teaching prefer to reserve their decision until the further study which has come to be a requisite to success in education has solved their problem, in the meantime their status continues to be that of "student", although in reality their position is as much one of orientation as that of the man who is floundering uncertainly during his first two or three years out of college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNCLASSIFIED | 6/13/1928 | See Source »

...problem of flying through the air by foot power, for a minute and a half at least, seems solved. There remains the problem of how to get started. At present the automobile acts as starter. Later Inventor White plans to take off from hillsides after installing a two and a half horsepower compressed air motor to get him up and give the 100 "wing flaps per minute necessary for flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Ornithopter | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Organization Problems. So many other food products companies has Postum Company absorbed recently that President Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (son of the famed Rear Admiral) has found his greatest problem in integrating the several organizations. To get the correct solution he is not hurrying his staff. That policy Postum directors approve, and they have postponed the increase of Postum's dividend rate. It has been $5 a share (all common, no preferred) since August, 1926. There was one 100% stock dividend and a second is believed imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Out of the Oven | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...easily as a musician could enter with a flute. Officials of the American Embassy were reluctantly obliged, last week, to request the U. S. citizenesses presented not to talk afterwards for publication about any matter appertaining to the Court. Presentee Miss Clementine Miller of Columbus, Ind., solved the problem of what to tell the reporters, last week, by divulging to them the Embassy's request. Smart Londoners chuckled hugely, coined a jest about "The Nineteenth 'No Gushing' Amendment," and finally recalled the gush uttered recently to reporters by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Third Court | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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