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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON BOOKSHELF, serving as it does a less variegated public than is served by metropolitan reviews and having at it disposal less space, must meet a unique situation. It has been trying throughout its existence to find a general plan to suit a college public. On its face the task does not appear great. If space is narrow and the public limited, proportions at least remain normal. This would be fundamentally true also if it were evident upon what grounds of limitation, the choice of books should proceed. It is the perplexity of selection that renders the proper solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kingdom | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...follow and brighten the path laid by his predecessor. . . . He has now passed away amidst our unbounded grief and sorrow. . . . Mournful and heavyhearted, we have now succeeded, to the Imperial line. With our limited gifts, we are mindful of the difficulty of proving ourselves equal to the great task devolved upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First Levee | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...officers will assume their duties immediately after the election. Their first task will be to organize the Sophomore Smoker, which will take place some time in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES ACT BY NAMING NINE FOR '29 BALLOTS | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

Although not necessarily suggesting ourselves for the task of the "setting right," we feel that someone could be used to great advantage in this position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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