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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In renewing my subscription for TIME, after an interval of six months during which I was not a subscriber, I am accepting the result of a deliberate experiment. At the time I allowed my former subscription to lapse I had become a commuter with the inevitable necessity of spending forty-five minutes in the morning and evening reading the newspaper. I thought, and not unreasonably, that by this constant pursuit of the daily news, incident by incident, I would be able to dispense with the summary of news which TIME so capably provides...
...first over-time period a basket by Harvard and two goals from fouls by Holy Cross tied the score, 42 to 42. At this point both teams suddenly opened up and started shooting fast and recklessly with the result that the University players triumphed in the final over-time period with a six point advantage...
...letter sent out yesterday to all the alumnae of Smith College by the officers of the Alumnae Association, is a plea for support that reveals clearly the distressing position in which that college finds itself as a result of the notoriety that attended the disappearance of Miss Frances Smith. Embraced by rumor and the zealous press, that institution has been unusually subject to the stupidities that characterize such attentions. "Alumnae want to know," the letter states, "Whether it is true that there has been a 'reign of terror' on the campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other...
...readers of the press are treated to an emotional debauch. In the eight states that deprive their citizens of the thrills attendant upon an execution, there is substituted the fascinating possibility that the offenders may some day again be at large to provide a little more entertainment. The result is pretty much the same. Violent death seems consistently exciting...
...only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory is, of course, that a serious student will do much better work and get better results if he is put on his own responsibility--a theory to which we heartily subscribe. It is also likely that such a quiet period will give the less serious student his first real acquaintance with scholarship and a taste for study that he does not get when under the forcing system...