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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely individual desire, may be called a true precursor of the House Plan. The past few years have seen an increasing number of upperclassmen solve the housing concerns of their final year by remaining on the Gold Coast. This, to a measure much larger than is apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause to the destruction of class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory to retain their rooms for three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight of his less extravagant relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

CRIMSON editorial competitions have a habit of paying pretty good dividends. Frankly, I learned a good sight more about English composition during my own CRIMSON competition than in a year's course in advanced composition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDITORIAL BOARD CONTEST UNUSUAL | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

Spectators of the Senate tariff war last week gasped with surprise at the sight of a trim new regiment marching briskly and in close order out of the hard-harried Republican redoubts. From the sidelines few were the faces recognized in this detachment of fresh troops as it deployed and in one bold stroke captured the tariff battlefield under sharp Democratic fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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