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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the report the orators of the two Schools will argue the subject: "Resolved, That the federal and state governments control water power." The Harvard team will support the affirmative side of the argument, to be opposed on the negative by the contingent from New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

These are among the methods by which Philips Brooks House is seeking toward its goal of service. But spirit can accomplish little without the flesh of genuine support. It must be granted that the ordinary undergraduate feels a certain desire to escape the memories of over-assiduous home-town charities and clubs, and that the less worthy, as well as the more worthy of these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE P. B. H. CONFERENCE | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...Zealand Parliamentary election, which was held last week simultaneously with the referendum, the support of Prime Minister Joseph Gordon Coates was cut from 53 seats to 28 in a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Wet Mistake | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Otto's Majesty | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Durant's "Story of Philosophy" suggested somewhat patronizingly that Durant had brought philosophy to Main Street but had not succeeded in bringing Main Street to Philosophy. Dewey, in looking on this field has combined both with a great deal of grace. The students of Philosophy A will quite probably support the opinion that to bring Philosophy to Main Street is not entirely to be regretted. And in doing so Dewey has not soiled the purity of intellectual emotion,--merely strained off the soporific wanderings of contemporary philosophy to bring to light certain basic principles common to modern civilization. Values...

Author: By C. M. U., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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