Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president in 1928. Among the visitors last week were: Edsel Ford, who told the President how he and his father Henry were going to speckle the air with new type planes (see AERONAUTICS). Said young Mr. Ford: "If business conditions continue good I believe there will be a widespread demand by the people for the renomination of the President." Richard Washburn Child, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy, who is firmly convinced that "public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business...
Wilsonian Ideals. At Rio de Janeiro widespread satisfaction was expressed at the action of Brazil in serving notice of withdrawal upon the League (TIME, June 21). President-elect Luis Jerne of Brazil who will succeed President Bamardes next October refused to comment, but Acting President of the Chamber Committee of Foreign affairs said last week: "Brazil's action means closer relations with the American republics, especially the United States. It became inevitable when it was seen that Latin America would not obtain a seat in the League Council. Woodrow Wilson's peace ideals are our ideals...
...other nation is appreciation of learning so widespread either in the ambition to partake of it or in the generous will to provide it for others. It was doubtless in the light of this truth that New York University, with a present endowment of only $3,720,000, of late launched a drive for $73,000,000 over five times the sum achieved by Harvard. Yet it is impossible to ignore the comparatively unimpressive showing made by college graduates, which is quite of a piece with the declining number of marriages and of children. Not so much the will...
...spring of 1925 things began to happen in the colleges. First of all, a widespread chapel revolt, broke loose. Paper after paper, from Yale to the University of Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective...
...convention of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business held in Columbus, O., on May 7, 8 and 9, 1925, a considerable portion of the discussion was concentrated upon the case method of teaching. While the interest was keen and widespread, it was forcefully brought to our attention that this case material is not available in sufficient quantities or in the ideal form for use in teaching in other schools. Our own instructors have access to much more of this material than is now available to others, and are frequently able to obtain supplementary facts on cases under discussion which...