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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that social obligations are beginning to rest upon the business man is deplorable, for the business group is unable, as yet, to cope with the social responsibility which this shift of position necessitates. This group is able to place a check upon the new scientific tendency of mind, if it so desires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS MEN NOT READY FOR NEW SOCIAL DUTIES | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...favor of Remington. Now, last week, the State Court of Appeals confirmed the last decision, to the effect that Mr. Fuller's connection after 1910 with N. C. R. was an "at will" one between the parties, that Mr. Fuller could be fired at pleasure, that he could shift employers without entail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Registers | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

There was a new development at Newell boathouse yesterday when Watts, last year's Freshman captain, went to the stroke seat in the first boat. Captain Winthrop moved to 6, Hubbard to 4, and Darlington to 2. This radical shift is probably a very temporary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. ENTERS BIG REGATTA ON MAY 29--WATTS STROKES FIRST | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...going to scattered lectures today, scattered in time and in place. There is something satisfying in attending four successive lectures in the morning, perhaps it gives one a chance to shift mental gears four times. On the other hand, to a vagabonding soul, it smacks too much of law and order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...Century by the German Jew, Moses Mendelssohn, to bring his coreligionists out of their spiritual seclusion into the current cultural life, stresses the national culture of the country of which the adherents are citizens. Its ritual is quite up to date. From the Temple pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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