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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday at the Harvard Union Norman Thomas in addition made perfectly plain that he is not expecting to meet the American test in this election--success--but that he is using this opportunity to educate the people of the United States. With faithless public servants in high office, with the tremendous bribes of the public, utilities, and with the increasing imperialism of the United States--this education is worth while. And the historical importance of a third party has always been in forcing changes upon the two major parties...
...concerning the present campaign at Harvard will be determined with a certain degree of accuracy by the CRIMSON's presidential poll. The two issues most intensely involved are of differing natures: political, in the actual determination of the University's choice of one candidate, more than political, in its test of Harvard's interest in American government...
Among the many panaceas proposed of recent years towards alleviating the ills of the college few obtained as general support as the "scholastic aptitude" tests which were made part of the admission requirements in many universities. At one of these, Amherst, investigations were made to determine whether they really fulfilled their function of predicting scholastic ability any better than the usual entrance examinations, and after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than...
...week in refusing to review the cases of one Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to go to work. They were the laboratory specimens selected from among tens of thousands to test a ruling made last year by the Labor Department (TIME, May 2, 1927), putting foreign-born Canadian commuters under the quota...
Line Coach Dunne sent his forwards through a stiff blocking and interfering drill, the A and B lines opposing each other. The Crimson forward wall, aver- aging over 190 pounds from tackle to tackle, has not received a severe test so far this season and its showing Saturday will be important, not only as far as the result of the game with the West Pointers is concerned, but also as it may affect the outcome of the entire fall campaign...