Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement of President Lowell that the degree of Master of Arts is becoming an excrescence in modern education will be as gratifying to students in the upper rank groups, as it is a valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions...
...should like to correct a statement in your issue of Jan. 16, p. 6, footnote...
...Believing that your magazine would welcome information of a correction of any statement in your magazine, I am taking the liberty of calling your attention to a statue erected to Israel Marks, a Jewish citizen of Meridian, Miss., and which was erected during his lifetime in the year 1913. The statue was erected in honor of Mr. Marks by public subscription, voluntarily donated by the people of all creeds and classes living in the City of Meridian, and it now stands in Highland Park in the City of Meridian. It was an appreciation to Mr. Marks who was a factor...
...George. Georgia Congressmen announced last week that they favored "George of Georgia" for the Democratic nomination. Their action followed the issuance by "George of Georgia" (U. S. Senator Walter Franklin George) of the following statement...
...Hull. Less impressive than the George candidacy, more informal but no more mysterious as to motive, was the Presidential candidacy, announced last week by Congressional colleagues with his foreknowledge, of U. S. Representative Cordell Hull from Tennessee, another Democrat. Candidate Hull, politically sagacious, understood the plan and made no statement. His friends, who sought to do him honor rather than to block another's path, displayed the Hull record: 37 years a lawyer, four years a judge, 20 years a Congressman, four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep...