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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified. The dominant type, however, was a dust which the analyst designated as Cantabrigian...
...hero is a stalwart youth of the small college type and arrives as a Freshman with hopes and aspiration high. Through the succeeding years he is subjected to the many temptations around him, succumbing to each in turn, only to be resuced at the last moment by Dame Fortune wearing even more stalwart youth's trousers. His ideals vanish. His "false Gods" topple over. He comes to the conclusion that college has been a failure. A Pollyanna is needed and Professor Henley rises to the occasion. In a long and immature discourse he attempts to justify college, cynically declaring that...
...business man of whom he speaks, who keeps his children lined up patiently waiting for the comic section while he reads it himself is a very common type; and the anecdote about the congressman who bowed to his colleague with an "After you, my dear Alphonse,"--just one week after the first appearance of the "Alphonse-and-Gaston" strip illustrates admirably its far-reaching effects. Who is there, indeed, who is not--from time to time if not regularly--exposed to a funny paper? The circulation and wide popularity of the comic supplements have made them powerful factors in American...
...exist, and that in the organization and accomplishment of their college work they will be left to themselves; the initiative will be theirs, to use for gaining their education themselves and thus for their greater profit. What supervision may be necessary will be of the "man to man" type offered by the tutorial system...
...appropriation for building three new fleet submarines requested by the Navy, on the grounds that the usefulness of this type of craft had not been successfully demonstrated. A substitute appropriation of $600,000 for submarine experiment was offered...