Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME believes itself to be endowed that it can read the motives in the mind of a boy who takes his own life. Is it not enough for a mother to lose her son without being universally held up to light as the cause for the deed ? Her letter, written in the performance of motherly duty, in all probability had nothing to do with the case. At any rate, it does not fall upon you to judge...
Volumes have been written to show that college fraternities are valuable institutions. Volumes more have been written to show that they are bad. A university president daring to come out flatly on college fraternities speaks more than volumes. Last week, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago spoke out in meeting: "If a fellow should buy a book in a course which he is not taking and should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair...
...book was written by Cotton Mather, and published in London in 1702. It was presented to the library by Miss Louisa Loring Dresel of Cambridge in whose family the book has been handed down for over 200 years...
President Neilson thinks that perhaps the most interesting section of these two volumes is the section containing the papers on the "Conduct of Life". They are certainly very interesting; and some of them are written with such simplicity and charm of language that they are sure to make a very strong appeal to the reader. Here are found also the three books which President Eliot himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think...
...coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...