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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allows for just that leisure to turn around that the average student needs before he comes up for his periodic examinations, and it also changes the character of such examinations so that they become intellectual experiences instead of more tests of memory and repetition of lectures. While Harvard has seen significant advances in the professional schools and great expansion during this period. President Lowell's great contribution has undoubtedly been in tais general levelling up of the undergraduate's intellectual opportunities. It is a twenty-year period that will become notable in Harvard's history for this basic intellectual betterment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Felicitates | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

Many members of the class have never even seen the candidates and often see them for the first time on Class Day. The poems of winners are printed in the Senior Album and are read at the Class Day exercises. Why should future classes continue to elect blindly when better talent, perhaps not so well known is in the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...tryout of E. I. Millard '31, a member of the class crew squad, at No. 6 in the Jayvees. None of the present shifts can be regarded as permanent for the first and second crews may present a far different aspect on the Thames from the one now seen on the Charles. The first and second crews will be de finitely selected soon after the oarsmen have completed their last workout on the Charles tomorrow. When they depart for Red Top on Sunday the seatings will probably be in their permanent state barring any unusual development during the three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE STROKE MEN GIVEN CHANCE FOR UNIVERSITY BERTH | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

Certainly Publisher Macfadden understands his People and its desires. He gives himself freely to it. The People wants pictures, and many a picture of Publisher Macfadden it has seen. The people wants human interest stories and many a story it has read about Publisher Macfadden, his wife and their many lusty offspring. The Macfadden publications are not ahead of the People or behind the People; they are of the People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Stock market absorption of credit was regarded with misgiving. But the keynote, ringingly struck, was that there is no limit to the capacity of the U. S. consumer to consume, and that the years 1922-29 had seen a pleasing increase in the capacity of U. S. production to supply material for consumption. Thus was observed a non-vicious circle in which the manufacturer constantly produced more merchandise, the consumer constantly consumed more merchandise, and out of the horn of plenty came gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hoover Committee | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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