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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice, but many would object violently to initial it as a sign of their formal approval. Other nations would object similarly to "O. K.'ing" our immigration policy, whatever it may finally turn out to be. And some would be almost certain to insist that if we could write our preferred policies into the Court Covenant they could do the same for their preferred policies-in which case, probably, clashing policies would prevent any agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Lodge Court | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Roared "the Tiger": "... I prefer my Vendée. I work. I rise before dawn and write. I cultivate my garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foiled | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...names of the men who have been selected to write for the series, together with the title of their articles and publication date for each will be announced in Monday's CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TO PRINT SERIES OF VOCATIONAL ARTICLES | 5/17/1924 | See Source »

Professor Morize resents certain newspaper write-ups of his recent address before the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, which merely exaggerated minor points of his speech and missed the real purpose. "It seems to me," he continued, explaining to the reporter just how he felt that American education, on the whole, puts the formation of character before the training of intelligence. This is natural if you go back to the origins and traditions of both nations--Anglo-Saxon mind versus Latin Culture. One may ask, today, however, whether the general conditions of our civilization do not call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCORES AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CHARACTER EDUCATION | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

...have a better system of teaching writing in France than you have, though," concluded Professor Morize. "Here at Harvard I doubt if there are more than a dozen men who can really write an original composition, and they are mostly the men who write editorials for the CRIMSON or the Advocate. When a man writes a thesis for his Ph. D. degree, he really rewrites something from an encyclopedia. There is nothing really original about it. You can't blame him, however, for not being original for he has never been taught to English A is a good course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCORES AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CHARACTER EDUCATION | 5/13/1924 | See Source »

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