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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Hierarchical reminiscences are not novel but, in some cases, entertaining. Such is the case with Frances of Warwick's book. Her self-centred, upper-class attitude makes itself pleasant and charming. The Victorian era, now assuming historical prominence, she pictures with fervor and delightful intolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frances of Warwick | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Rand" in upper New York state stands for "Banking" as much as does "Giannini" in California. Just dedicated is the Rand Building, tallest of Buffalo skyscrapers, a memorial from Banker Rand to his father, George Franklin Rand Sr.,? remembered as an able banker and a mainspring of Buffalo finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marine Midland | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Registration for the three upper classes will commence this morning at 9 o'clock and continue throughout the day at Memorial Hall. The building will close at 5 o'clock this afternoon and reopen for registration at 9 o'clock Monday morning. All members of the College will have to be registered by 5 o'clock Monday unless they have special permission to be late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...descend regularly every fall on the Freshman class and they will undoubtedly do so as long as people continue to go to college. Between meetings at the Union, and the Phillips Brooks House, conferences with faculty and student advisors, meals and discussions with other bewildered classmates, respectful conversations with upper classmen, the Freshman soon finds out enough to avoid singing up for five pressing contracts, and fills out a study card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOLF IN THE LAMB'S SKIN | 9/20/1929 | See Source »

...nothing quite so vague as the House Plan. Reduced to its simplest definition it will be an attempt to continue, to a greater or less degree according to how well it works, the conditions under which the Freshmen supposedly live at present. The lack of social life in the upper class dormitories is going to be corrected by the erection of a group of buildings, divided into separate units in which the upper classmen will live. These individual units will have highly organized activities which are being worked out at present by Professors Greenough and Coolidge, who will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOLF IN THE LAMB'S SKIN | 9/20/1929 | See Source »

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