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...being started with the hope that a large percentage of Harvard men will be glad to send a check annually, whether it be for $1, $5, $50, or $5,000. The undersigned committee would like to see a response from every man here. May we ask you to take prompt action...
Confronted with new facts and new knowledge growing at a speed that outstripped the possibility of prompt correlation at the time, the educational world adopted as its fundamental method of handling knowledge the method that was producing knowledge, namely, specialization. Few will dispute that the primacy of the principle of specialization is 90 per cent inevitable. This 90 per cent inevitability need not, however, blind us to some of the bad by-products of specialization. It is in devising ways and means for preventing these bad by-products that the next fruitful advances in educational policy are most likely...
...powers of the Park Commission. (Bills went to the House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal to alter the secrecy rule.* The House? ¶ Impeached, 306 to 62, Federal Judge George W. English (see below). C¶Passed a bill authorizing an increase of $18,555,000 in pensions for Spanish-American war veterans. (Went to the Senate...
...others brought was this: War toys instil into a child's mind a militaristic spirit. Therefore the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom wishes to do away with war toys. It requests the toy manufacturers to aid it by ceasing to make the devices which prompt the young and innocent to devilish thoughts of war. If the toy manufacturers will cease, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, will thank them; if not, next fall the League will start a boycott on war toys...
Indemnity. Bulgarians grudgingly admitted that Dictator Pahgalos was at least prompt when 15 million leva ($110,000) passed from Athens to Sofia last week as the second half of the indemnity awarded by the Council of the League of Nations, as arbiter of the Greco-Bulgar frontier clash (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). The payment was made eleven days before...