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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field-event man. Any man with a good pair of legs and some brains can be made by proper coaching into a first class runner. The preparatory school star with a reputation does not always prove the best in college circles, because others who are more willing to be taught and have a greater brain capacity can forge right ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANYONE CAN BE A TRACK MAN SAYS E. L. FARRELL | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

College men who have been taught that the greatest sacrifice one can commit in the sacred precincts of Widener is to light a match or steal a book must recognize in the probable innovation of the Business School Library a sign of the times. It will be the first time smoking has ever been permitted in any college library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Library Is First to Permit Smoking--Breaks Ancient Tradition Dating Back to Sir Walter Raleigh's Time | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...make tools for the Ford company. That the academic side is not wholly neglected is demonstrated by the fact that boys finishing a four year course there are credited with three years in other high schools. Most of the graduates become mechanics or draughtsmen. Though the pupils are thus taught to earn their own living by their hands, specialization at such an early age seems highly dangerous. The ideal of a general education is admittedly a secondary consideration. The institution is little more than a training school for the Ford factory. That children should be taught a certain amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE LITTLE MARY WENT | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Twenty-five years ago this array was otherwise. Tuberculosis then was the chief cause of death. But doctors have taught defense against contaminated surroundings. People have learned to guard themselves. So typhoid, yellow and scarlet fevers, diphtheria, cholera and babies' bowel troubles are no longer pandemic and rarely epidemic in civilized countries. People live, on the average, ten years longer now than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heart Diseases | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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