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...population shifts westward, the state university will become an increasingly important medium of instruction. In order to progress toward the educational ideal, outside pressure must not be a factor in faculty policy. Only if it is itself free from control can a university foster that essential of education, intellectual independence...
...form in the forties of the last century and stopped progressing between 1914 and 1918. The present Russian plan of education dates from 1920 and the last five years has been a period of steady advance. We are now in the old world, the new world has again advanced westward", declared Mr. Scott Nearing in speaking to the members of the Liberal Club yesterday on education in the Soviet government...
...this point we had intended originally to insert a few paragraphs from a recent work of ours on "The Cattle Industry in Relation to Westward Migration 1650-1673". But perhaps it would be just as well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have...
...Hartwell Carver before the U. S. Congress. Not until 1862, however, was a practical start made on the vast stretch west of the Mississippi River. In that year, the Union Pacific began construction westward from Omaha, and simultaneously the Central Pacific began laying track eastward from San Francisco. In 1869 the two roads met and were joined at Promontory Point, Utah-thus completing steam transcontinental service...
GOLD OF OPHIR-Sydney and Marjory Greenbie - Doubleday, Page ($4). The story of the lure of the Orient in early America, how it drew Yankee clippers around the Horn, how it propelled the movement westward across the continent...