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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly be transcribed into a foreign tongue. And yet it would be interesting to see how it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas Mann--In General and In Particular | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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