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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order of General Pershing the Y. M. C. A. set up a canteen system for the A. E. F., and its work was commended by the commanding general during the war and afterward, and an exhaustive inquiry conducted by the Army by direction of General Pershing resulted in complete disproval of such innuendos as Mr. Scott's as well as refutation of every accusation made against the association. All the work done by the Y was under general orders, describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...issue I thought you might be interested to know that some public high schools are also doing this pioneer work. Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa.-a Philadelphia suburban High School-has for a number, of years, under the leadership of its principal, John H. Tyson, had a system of personal history cards, which are similar in purpose and idea to those of the Hill School. They are a four years' cumulative record of all that might help to determine a pupil's fitness for college or a place in the world. HELEN M. FERREE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Postpone application of the national origins immigration quota system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House & Senate | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Dame cathedral in Paris. Cardinal Newman's Apologia, which he won as a prize for playing handball in his schooldays, has influenced him more than any other book. He lectured at Harvard several years ago. He likes Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and dislikes the Freudian case system. The Bronte Sisters is his best known earlier work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking, An Art | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...definitely better and more flexible arrangement of course requirements is expressed in the adoption of a new nomenclature and altered demands by the English Department. Like the History Department, it has renumbered its basic courses upon a somewhat more sane system than the usual football-signal confusion, an advantage so evident that it is strange not to find it carried through in other departments, especially those of literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL HANGING ON | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

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