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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization of distinct corps of artillery and engineers, and the creation of a new rank, the cadets, occurred in 1794. Seven years later one George Barron undertook to conduct an acaartillery and engineers, and the creademy for the few cadets then in service; but, says the Colonel of the Corps, "the Institution soon ran into disorder, and the Teacher into contempt." Under Government management, however, the Academy began to broaden its scope of learning, and the early curriculum of Mathematics and Engineering was supplemented by Frence and Drawing. At that time the 30 odd cadets lived in barracks dating from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Prints Condensed History of "The Gray Towers on the Hudson"---Rank Created in 1794 | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Cole explained that in the past, candidates for honors often wrote 100 to 150 typewritten pages. Believing that a long thesis would influence their rank favorably, they were tempted to put material from secondary sources in their theses, minimizing the amount of original work acquired from their own thinking or research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESES TO BE MARKED ON MERIT BASIS HEREAFTER | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

Notable on the Democratic side there are, besides Rollin Kirby, Cartoonists Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun and Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Eagle. But the Duffy vein is too broad to rank high and the Harding execution has been better than the Harding ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...warnings from Philadelphia could be guessed and fought. What could not have been guessed was a 300-word statement from John Jacob Raskob, which came like a knife-thrust in the market's back. With Arthur Cutten, and the Brothers Fisher, Mr. Raskob has stood in the front rank of the bulls. His slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers were preparing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bull, Bear, Lion, Lamb | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Should Bulgarian school teachers don uniforms varying in color according to the teacher's rank? Should, for instance, a headmistress wear royal purple, a primary school teacher baby pink, a teacher of science electric blue? Should the uniforms extend below the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Teacher in Uniform | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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