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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ship Comes In. A Serbian student in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, fired a pistol 14 years ago. Nearly everything that has been produced in letters since then has re-echoed the barking of that pistol. So too has nearly everything in the cinema. No exception is this story of an immigrant who, unjustly imprisoned, is released only to find that his son has been overwhelmed in the big noise of 1914-18. Rudolph Schildkraut is languid as the immigrant. This is one of two pictures in which able Louise Dresser gives simultaneous, current Manhattan performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...greatest contribution to science is his use of x-rays to describe and measure the atoms and molecules of crystals. As is expected of new B. A. A. S. presidents, Sir William stated his scientific credo: "There are some who think that science is inhuman. They speak as though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that can be said of the student who stands daily in the presence of what seems to him to be the Infinite. Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Eternal cycle. Among those whose minds were groping for the heart of being rather than its stomach was Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize winner, student of the cosmic ray (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925),† physicist of the California Institute of Technology. For years he has been in the vanguard of those attacking the foundations of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Manhattan | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...move to abolish the honor system started last year when the Student Council by referendum established its unpopularity. The chief cause of dislike was a clause in the honor system code which required students to report cases of "cribbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Busier Faculties | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Busier Faculties | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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