Word: review
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the current number of the Advocate was written especially for the Crimson by Bernard De Voto '18, author of "The House of the Sun goes Down" and other novels...
...wonders a little whether Dean McConn of Lehigh is not trying a little too hard to see exclusively out of the rose colored half of his bifocals. In a recent article in the North American Review he vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that...
Then came the now-well-known Hoover review of progress (in dollars) since 1921. But this time the Nominee coined a slogan. He said: "The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage...
Next came a review of partisanship in the U. S. Tariff Commission, blaming Democrats and Republicans alike, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge, but forgiving Wilson because of the recreation of the Commission in 1916. Secretary Jardine received a flaying for having misquoted the Smith reference to the Underwood...
...commute is not to migrate. So decided the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week in refusing to review the cases of one Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota...