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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third thing the President did to set the stage for renewed international negotiations. He gave up his customary weekend fishing trip, called in Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to learn what progress U. S. experts were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...
Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...these, the closing days of the assignment of degrees to Seniors with or without distinction, there emerges a conflict between two aspects of the academic progress which should be in harmony, each fulfilling its purpose without a disturbing contact with the other. The work done in courses and the tutorial and individual work done in a student's field of concentration contribute, each in its own measure, toward the education of which the Bachelor's degree is the tangible evidence. But at the last those who give courses become jealous of control over the result. Is it fair...
...beginning was made on a more complete classification system as applied to Business Literature. Our present classification was made in the early years of the School before the Faculty had an adequate basis for the work. It is very expensive to change but a welcome gift makes substantial progress possible. Concomitant with this classification work a start has been made upon building up an adequate cataloguing organization. Many books which have been stored for several years have been made available. Classification is of great importance, and to work out this problem in such a way that it may serve students...
...needed for the preservation of unity and national health may rightly be considered to jeopardize the cause of permanent peace. And indeed there would seem to be some ground for the opinion that there is an anomaly in decorating a permanent collection of the sum total of human intellectual progress with memorials to that spirit which in all ages has interrupted and perverted rational thought...