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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University in a firm and individual position in the line of march...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CORPORATION VOTES | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students through a common mould and turn out only impractical theorists. The Northeastern rule is admittedly only a tentative step, but even as an experiment it sets a dangerous example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWADDLING CLOTHES | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

...announced by M. Poincaré, prior to his recent sweeping victory at the general election (TIME, May 7), the present Conversion Loan is a firm preliminary step toward eventual restoration of the stabilized franc to a gold basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Billions for Consolidation | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Passengers will board a train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Manhattan at 6:05 p. m. Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Train & Plane | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...College Parietal Regulations for next year is one stating that "No student shall lodge in an apartment house." The change in College regulations embodied in this provision is by no means a sudden one. It has long been contemplated by the College authorities, while the reasons making such a step advisable have even longer been apparent to students as well as officers of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM AND PRACTICALITY | 5/25/1928 | See Source »

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