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...ever there were a case which justified drastic action by Lucy Stoners, it is that of the false masculine labelling in degrees conferred on women. After four years spent in tireless pursuit of an education, the sweet girl graduate proves to have done mere man's work, instead of getting herself ready for the great jumping-off place of marriage. There is nothing distinctive about it--for even cap and gown are similar to those worn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MASCULINE LABEL | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

...then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wizard of Menlo | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

Every Government department has its mimeograph machines. Tireless, they serve many purposes?the issuance of memoranda to employes, for example. They are used in the manufacture of official information which is sent, postage free, to the 2,310 newspapers of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Tell Me More. George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies. Ever since he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue and collected great commendation from serious critics, his every movement is listened to with interest. In this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 27, 1925 | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Tibbetts '17, Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House and a former follow-worker with Arthur Beane, in speaking of his death last night declared. "In the death of Arthur Beane, the University and the Phillips Brooks House have lost a faithful friend, a tireless worker, and a wise councillor. In his undergraduate days, and in his seven years at the Phillips Brooks House, the influence of his dominant personality and rugged Christian character was felt by hosts of students who look back upon him as one of the greatest influences for good in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTHUR BEANE '11 DIES AFTER ILLNESS IN N. Y. | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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