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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York sale now being exhibited in Widener is a copy of the first edition of "The Scarlet Letter". This volume brought $1,175 in New York, chiefly because of Hawthorne's autograph on the frontispiece. The Widener volume, however, not only has an autograph, but a word of greeting written in Hawthorne's own hand to the recipient of the book...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...University's hope to bring into contact a body of students with diverse interests who will provoke one another to think on many and varied subjects. Stimulation of undergraduates by rivalry both in athletics and scholarship should be an ultimate result of the system, the University believes. In a word, the offerings of a great university will be combined with the benefits of the small college...
...many courses to date, the meaning of the word "substitution" has not been fully carried out. In spite of the example of last year, volumes of reading have been prescribed, covering material sometimes vastly more extensive than could be accomplished in the six lectures which formerly were held during the corresponding two weeks. Such an increase in the assignments can hardly fail to bring with it unfortunate results: the work is performed in a more superficial manner which does not produce the same lasting value, and when examinations finally set in, the student at once feels the strain which...
...precious "institution." It is sad to see an inferior member of the hierarchy of knowledge, a mere college, disobedient to high command. Dean Doyle of the George Washington University has sent to some four hundred universities and colleges a questionnaire of great pith and moment on "Collegiatism"--a marvelous word that surprises by itself. What are the habits of the undergraduate...