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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chang Tso-lin, supreme at Peking and throughout Manchuria and North China, called a conference of all his generals, last week, to harangue and inspire them with suitable zeal for the Spring campaigns of civil...
Knowledge that three out of four people in the U. S. do not use tooth brushes vexed dentists who, although they were attending the 64th annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society last week, represented the profession throughout the country. The Chicago society has taken national rank next to only the American Dental Association (which meets in Minneapolis next August...
...rediscount rate from 3½ to 4%. At once the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank did likewise. It was the first time since August, 1926 that any of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks had increased their rates. The rate movement had been widely opposite. By last September it had become throughout...
Harvard men throughout the world, dismayed by news that Professor Charles Townsend Copeland ("Copey") had resigned, took heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance...
...obvious and fully justifiable criticism of such a program is that it is superficial. Psychologists can prove to their own satisfaction that a man's intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining...