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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that the University of Oregon is contemplating adoption of the Honors Course emphasizes once again the rapidity with which this modification of the tutorial system is spreading throughout the colleges of the United States. That the essential spirit behind this important development in educational methods remains the same whether at Harvard, at Swarthmore, at Wisconsin, or at Oregon is true, but there are certain phases in its advance which merit serious question...
...their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast these details has created a series of intimate pictures and a minor symbolism running throughout the book. At their highest, the pictures do justice to the emotional relationships of the characters...
...vetoes it, he will promptly be told that Frank Orren Lowden or Charles Gates Dawes is as likely to be the next President of the U. S. as is Calvin Coolidge. If he signs it, he will be called upon to apologize to New England and "sound businessmen" throughout the land, and will be accused of having lost his character as a strong, silent man. Incidentally, he may find that his signature has been attached to an unconstitutional measure. And he will get little credit for signing?as everyone will be told that the signing was a case of sour...
...discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country, is not partly in the power of a collection of dram-drinking politicians...
...Each party now wishes to Irive its opponents off the stage and to regain from the foreign powers what are called 'lost rights.' The nationalists have gained military control of a little more than one third of China's territory but they have not established an effective administration throughout that large an area...