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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likely to consider that the matter of their personal fitness is not worth much thought, inasmuch as the question is neither pressing nor easy to solve. College is usually regarded as a matter of course,--to be taken or discarded on its objective merits. It is a rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance, and it would appear doubtful if any of those who have found themselves unsuited to a college education ever suspected that they would so find it until they had learned by experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions in the minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTIVE EDUCATION | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

...deplored, however, is the prominence given to Harvard as a woman's college; it is this sort of thing that works more harm than it affords amusement. Internal criticism of whatever nature is always permissible, but amusing oneself at the public expense of others is particularly bad taste. A case in point is the memorable Lampoon issue of last fall embodying what the editors thought legitimate humor. In the Tiger it would have been, but that would have been a laughing with rather than at. The Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observations | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

...although not exactly a necessity to the maintenance of the national economic security, the student's capabilities are being realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN SUMMER COMES | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

...passed when the absorption of one college by another can be seriously decried as an elimination of competition for monetary gain. None would have dared impute such a thing to the megger, announced last week, of Drake University with its fellow-townsman, the University of Des Moines (Iowa). Yet to the name of Drake, under which the merged institutions will proceed, imputations were made plentifully not 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition Eclipsed | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...Harn: "Don't be afraid to buy smaller circulation if the indications are it has the right kind of patrons. To drive for larger and larger circulations is only loading you up with a burden of your own creation. Publishers do not want to perpetrate this uneconomic thing of inflated circulations, but you force them to do it when they find you select your list of newspapers solely on the factor of having the largest circulation in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertisers | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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