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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the work-on which assignment to this category is based has nothing to do with the college, since the greater part of candidates drop ancient languages upon leaving school, the listing on Commencement Day remains according to work in a secondary institution four or five years before. The result is such a confusion of terms as occurs when one finds a student concentrating in Modern Languages receiving an S.B., and a man whose field is Chemistry listed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEGREES IN THE SHADE | 6/14/1928 | See Source »

...laid on the degrees, are the factors against making a rational change. The first is vague but powerful: the second is weak, for to the laity, if not to the academic world, the connotation of S.B. is unavoidably that of a student of science. Since the degree is a result of college work, it would be a more logical procedure were the universities of the country to rearrange the requirements for these degrees, and settle the difference by awarding the degree of Bachelor of Science to men whose field of study in college has been scientific, while the Bachelor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEGREES IN THE SHADE | 6/14/1928 | See Source »

...Chairman William Hirth of the Corn Belt Federation reported from Des Moines, la., that the 1,000,000 farmers represented by himself and colleagues would "make a last stand for equality of opportunity . . . at Kansas City"; that if either Mr. Coolidge or Mr. Hoover were nominated, it would "result in a wholesale bolt of the party by the farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crusade? | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Last month, Ben Bess got out of jail. Governor Richards pardoned him. The pardon was the result of Maude Collins' confession-now that she is 60 and expecting Death soon-that she had sworn falsely about Ben Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Collins Woman Case | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Physically he is frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler- ( Dodge) -Dillon | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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