Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a widespread opinion among educators as well as laymen that our larger colleges and universities do not do their jobs as efficiently as they might. Various reasons are advanced for their alleged failure. Some say our huge schools are intellectual filling-stations where culture may be had in any given quantity or quality regardless of the student's gas capacity. The remedies suggested are many, but among the more popular is the one of breaking these inert masses up into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that...
Beginning today and continuing throughout tomorrow and Thursday the Beaux Arts collection of drawings and paintings will be exhibited at the Old Fogg Museum under the auspices of the department of Architecture. The collection, which includes representative works from various periods, has been sent to various schools and colleges in the country by the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, of New York...
Last week tall, patriarchal President Masaryk received from Dr. Svehla his resignation as Prime Minister. For a whole year the pallid statesman has been trying to arrest the course of a malignant disease at various European spas. In the case of the Mystery Man, "ill health" is no mere excuse, but the true and tragic reason for a great statesman's retirement...
Dictature Consolidated. Throughout the week there were signs that King Alexander and General Zivkovitch are rapidly consolidating their dictature, slowly relaxing their censorship, reorganizing the various ministries of State, ruthlessly suppressing all political opposition...
When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...