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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this analysis is correct there seems to be some hope of remedying the defects of both types of universities. A cultivation of a sense of values is necessary in both cases. Once these values are fixed, public opinion will make them just as effective as it has the false values which are leading to pedantry in the one type and athleticism in the other. In Germany the character building which results from participation in college journalism, dramatics, and athletics must be recognized as of some importance. In the United States there is the far more difficult task of convincing...
There are few surprises in politics because politicians talk so much that they have few secrets?real secrets, that is. Such surprises as there are not infrequently come about as the result of politicians unexpectedly suiting their actions to their words. This was the type of surprise which came, last week, from the caucus of Republican Senators. There had been talk, newspaper talk, of ousting insurgents from the Republican ranks. Quidnuncs shrugged their shoulders: "Talk. Nothing but talk. It won't be done." But something was done...
Pictures were sent at the rate of about one every 20 minutes. The first to come was President Coolidge. The next, Secretary Hughes. Next came a Chinese proverb in heavy type: "One picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted...
...Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called?has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck, 18 with the top of the clock...
...such period since the birth of Christ," he said, "and each change brings about closer contact with our fellow men at the other ends of the earth." He stated that on this account there is a greater need for sympathy among peoples, which might be founded on the broadening type of education...