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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...H.A.A. regulations read that if you once pass out you cannot come back and see the rest of the game. We feel sure this rule will be put to a rigid test...
...tendency of the college to thrust itself into the preparatory school life of the undergraduate-to-be is shown in another way: the decision of the commission of psychologisia to have the scholastic aptitude test available for the information of college authorities a year in advance of admission. The scholastic aptitude test assisted in the determination of the classes of 1930 and 1931 at Harvard, and has given reliable and illuminating information concerning the 15,000 candidates who have been examined during its experimental years of 1926 and 1927. Regarded no longer in the light of an experiment, the scholastic...
...said. "There is more leadership among the Filipinos than among any people of Europe. The Islands have given every evidence of their capability of governing themselves; the government has been in the hands of Filipinos for years. Although the percentage of illiteracy may be high, is literacy a fair test of capacity of self-government...
...change of government, as local and not national issues are the primary considerations. On the other hand, it may reasonably be argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position to the acid test of a general election; but no overwhelming loss occurred; the Liberals and Conservatives still hold the balance of power; the Laborites control the Municipal Council in only seven towns and their gains were made chiefly in the industrial centres, while their most notable loss was in the radical stronghold of Glasgow...
...Baldwin Government, elected in the fall of 1924, still has two years to run before its five-year mandate expires, although it is usual for a government to hold a general election before that time, but a decision to submit its position to the test of an election depends almost entirely upon the will of the Cabinet. Today there is a good deal of dissatisfaction in the land and much loud grumbling, which is more characteristic than specific. But Mr. Baldwin still holds a very comfortable majority in the House of Commons, and the chances are, therefore, that there will...