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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: More Prestige | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...opposing elements. The fact, however, that the increase was so large is surprising." Railway shopmen, maintenance of way employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation Board. There remain the engineers and firemen. Eastern firemen want $1 a day more; Southeastern engineers a general 15% boost. They have made claims on individual employers, but have not yet come to discussion. Canadian railroaders threatened a strike last week. But the smoothness of the U. S. arbitration made them pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILWAYS: Pay Raised | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...concludes that there is no solution, that there has always been friction where Negroes and Caucasians have lived side by side. The Negro's chance of survival is not as good, biologically or economically, as the Caucasian's. However, both the Negro and the friction will remain for centuries. The friction can be lessened, but not obliterated, by education of the Negro and by a less prejudiced attitude on the part of the Caucasians. Significance. In 600 pages, the volume is both readable and encyclopaedic. Professor Dowd has much to say and no reason for saying it except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities of the professor's attitude, remain indifferent to the things about which he cares the most, that these contacts are so seldom obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Trusted by College Presidents Asserts MacCracken | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

...gave a complete college education of a mediocre type are now turning themselves into junior colleges so that they can give excellent education for two years and affiliate themselves with some great university to which they send their graduates for the Junior and Senior work. There will, of course, remain the strong non-university college like Amberst and Vassar which will not want to do this. Nor would it be necessary that they should. It is desirable to have colleges to which students who can afford the time and money and have the inclination can spend four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duggan Compares Educational System of Europe With That of United States | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

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