Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will prophesy that by the year 1935 the Negro death rate will equal the birth rate and from then on the decrease toward extinction will be absolute. And this process will be greatly hastened by the Negro's northward migrations, by industrial competition and by being scattered all over the country...
...against Jugoslavia, he took shrewd measures to cover his tracks and conceal his plans. In London, Berlin, the Italian Ambassadors ostentatiously informed the British and German governments, likewise the press, that Jugoslavia was rapidly mobilizing last week against Albania; but that the Italian Government would bend its every effort toward peace...
DECADENCE-Maxim Gorky-McBride ($2.50). Freely translated, the pen-name, "Gorki," means "bitter."* But in this study of Russian babbitts, Author Gorky is no Sinclair Lewis. He is impassive and even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...most striking features of the annual banquet of the Yale Daily News, held in New Haven last week, was the suggestion advanced by Dean Mendell toward remedying the problem of overpopulation. A third, and possibly a fourth, college, to rank with the two existing divisions, lie at the basis of his solution. The additional college would have much the same specialized curriculum as Sheffield, with the emphasis probably placed upon History and Economics...
That the solution lies along the lines suggested by Dean Mendell is debatable. Any distinction based on curricular differences bids fair to promote specialization of the most doubtful value. The lead in educational theory today is rather one toward elimination of such artificial boundaries as those that exist between the several arts and sciences. The division of an English university into "pass' students and "honor" students must recommend itself as more likely to fit the situation. Such a distinction could well be established on a basis like that of the tutorial system as it is found at Harvard. More logical...