Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system in American universities, Dr. J. Edgar Park of Wheaton College witticised variously on the subject before an eminent gathering of teachers in Tremont Temple. "One of the greatest needs in this country today," he disclosed, at one point "is the establishment of two club colleges as near New York as possible which will help to free the regular colleges of the undesirabe materials now clogging them up.... They will offer close contact with bootleggers, lots of ash trays and easy chairs, all the advantages of fraternities and sororities, and plenty of opportunity for social recreation...
Fourth: I think that statesmanlike qualities fit one better for the presidency than such vaudeville attractions as a brown derby and the Sidewalks of New York...
...then took up social work, and became intimately familiar with the living and working conditions of the laborers. During the World War he took a firm stand for Peace as an active member of the American Union against Militarism. Since then he has run a New York Socialist paper, and been prominent in the organization of the party, and the conducting of strikes against wage cuts and injunctions. He has done a great deal to justify the Socialist party in the opinion of the world...
Bell was the Harvard representative at the conference, to which delegates from the University of Illinois, the University of Detroit, Cornell, Carnegie Tech., Northeastern, New York University, M. I. T., Pennsylvania, and Harvard. The plans drawn up call for an organization to be allied with the National Aeronautical Association, which would make use of the latter's machinery...
...industry has produced in quite some time. Von Sternberg is as good a director as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Baclanova is as good a Russian hot house plant as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. "The Docks of New York" is as good an underworld picture as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time...