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Early last March the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College approved one of the most radical educational experiments projected in any of the larger American colleges in recent years. The plan, which received official sanction, at that time, called for a cessation of classes during two periods of the academic year--the two and a half weeks between the Christmas vacation and the mid-year examination period and the three and a half weeks preceding final examinations. These periods were to be known as reading periods, and their adoption was to be optional with the various departments of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Most Non-Scientific Divisions to Adopt Reading Period Plan | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

Presbyterian General Assembly declare: ". . . Yet is adultery alone clearly recognized in the New Testament as cause for divorce. Therefore the Church cannot sanction divorce on any other ground nor the remarriage of divorced persons other than the innocent parties in divorces granted for adultery; and it shall be unlawful for a minister to marry any divorced person except one so divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ground for Divorce | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...expected that Dartmouth will sanction this new agreement between Harvard and Yale and will perhaps join with them in having a neutral individual, no relation to either participant, choose the officials for all the big games If Dartmouth agrees to join Harvard and Yale Langford will no doubt be the man she will allow to choose the officials for football games with major eastern rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outsider to Select Officials for 1927 Crimson-Eli Classic | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...clear the air, Premier Wakatsuki attempted to secure approval from the Imperial Privy Council to extend enormous credits from the Bank of Japan to save the Bank of Taiwan. The Privy Council, a body of august solons with super-legislative power, responsible only to the Emperor, refused to sanction the Cabinet's plan. So, although Premier Wakatsuki had a parliamentary majority, he resigned with his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: JAPAN New Cabinet | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pawky Promises | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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