Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your favor of the 7th announcing FORTUNE just received suggests a forthcoming publication which should prove to be most acceptable to the intelligent reading public. However, I am nearing my seventy-sixth birthday and while I hope to continue TIME, I am cutting off magazines. ... I wish you every success and regret that...
Primogeniture and hereditary public office have no place in U. S. tradition. This fact, however, did not last week deter the voters of the 7th Minnesota District from electing by a two-to-one majority Paul John Kvale (pronounced "Ka-volley") of Benson to the Congressional seat for six years occupied by his father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will...
...benefit of future chairmen of boards of directors and prospective senators the course is adding some brief instruction in public speaking for the first time this year. The theory behind this move is sound even if the execution may be slightly disconcerting for the freshmen involved. Beyond this slight change the course remains the same unwieldy monster which causes so much lost sleep in the Dormitories along the Charles...
...Carnegie report was of intercollegiate and, to a certain extent, of public importance. Two other items played up during the past week were not. The three-column "Stunt Riot at Harvard" headline of a Boston paper last Thursday led a story that deliberately over-emphasized one incident of the initiations until there appeared to be a race-riot seething under the surface at Harvard Square. The bold-face story on "Kindergarten Treatment" in another paper yesterday related a mild disciplinary action such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus...
...problem of amateurism regarding both college and non-college athletics has been so hotly discussed of recent years that no situation even remotely connected with it can escape the searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...