Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the standard is not high in the undergraduate departments", said Mr. Peers, "there is high quality work in the graduate schools. Few foreign students attend, the enrollment being small and almost entirely Spanish. In general, however, the tendency in these Universities is progressive...
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson...
...direct financial interest in fighting against liquor. The dry forces have always had to pass the hat. Gradually, however, all socially minded people have come to see the social side of the question, and they have responded to appeals for voluntary contributions more and more generously. Millions of small contributions have come in. But the dry forces have never had funds enough to carry on as vigorous a campaign as the wets. At the present moment they are under the same old handicap. They must rely, as in the past, on the merits of their cause...
...Bureau is one of the few activities at present conducted by Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and it is potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before...
Harvard's $11,000,000 experiment in small-unit education, to be inaugurated next fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...