Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School was first broached, occupied a more and more prominent position in the consideration of all those connected with Yale. Now with the recent thorough treatment of the subject by President. Augell the question is place squarely before everyone...
...force a show down with Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies of arms as well as Hungarian. Thus it seemed, last week, that Count Stephen Bethlen might eventually succeed in bluffing not merely one Chinaman...
Then came Les Noces and Stravinsky plunged into the realm of the absolute. Music hereafter was to be utterly objective, to stand alone, to find inspiration for itself within itself, for its own sake, not for the sake of those who should listen, not even for his, Stravinsky's, sake...
...University of Wisconsin will not stand for loose speech. The following speech is considered immoral by the University of Wisconsin: "I believe in two or three companionate marriages before one settles down. How else can one be sure unless one has experimented? A woman should always experiment before marriage, just as a man does. There should be no need to lie about...
...final paragraph expounded the slogan, "Kill the Beast," with which the cover of the Annual Report was conspicuously adorned: "The hour to overthrow the Church has come. Arise, ye prisoners of the priest! Strike down the God superstition! The Clergy are powerful because you are on your knees. Stand up! ... Be men! . . . Prepare for the oncoming religious revolution." The "greatest achievement of the year" was described as the "founding ... of the American Anti-Bible Society." This organization has been denied a charter, to secure which atheists plan a legal campaign...