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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators from Kansas, again, to recommend a friend for a judgeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...plan of a previous tutorial vacation would obviate this objection. And even without that provision an optional conference with one's tutor would not burden him with even half the usual labor of the routine months. He would still enjoy a comparatively free time for research. The wary will recommend that the student, about to enter an ordeal of fire, be allowed at least a certain sanctuary where he may find, not necessarily reenforcements, but encouragement and warning. As the plan now stands students may be granted tutorial aid in some cases, but the general tendency is in the opposite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRITICAL PERIOD | 11/26/1927 | See Source »

Unofficialdom said that Army's flood control report would recommend: 1) Standard levees from above Cairo, Ill., to the Mississippi mouth, 12 feet wide (instead of 8, as now) and higher than ever; 2) Illuminated national highways atop these levees; 3) Spillways at Poydras, La.; and down the Atchafalaya Basin; 4) Lateral levee control of large Mississippi tributaries; 5) No reforestation; 6) Costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood Control | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...entertainment which is a veritable miracle of extravagant bad taste, which even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages and the delightful interline included therein might not be missed by students unfamiliar with the original text, but without them and the sundry other amourous moments wherein the chastest of embraces have been substituted for move strictly...

Author: By Lucius BEEBE. G., | Title: Petronius 'Pot-House Odyssey Dulcified | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...drug store on the corner) you will find little solace in it. Anyway, every play here was tried out two years ago in New Haven and was unanimously booed by the Student Council. The movies are open--wide open--if you care for that sort of thing. We recommend with reservation Hoot Gibson and without reservations, Hoot Gibson's horse. And then there is the Public Library; possibly you could pick up something there; only remember you're a Yale man and Yale men don't do that sort of thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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