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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that has been made to minimize the shock of installing the House Plan, by avoiding too close an imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table is to be a high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING ON ENGLISH | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Electrical Power Regulation. "The Federal Power Commission is now composed of three Cabinet officers. . . . I recommend that authority be given for the appointment of full-time commissioners to replace them. . . . The authority of the commission should be extended to certain phases of power regulation. About 90% of all power generation and distribution is intrastate. . . . There are cases, however, of interstate character beyond the jurisdiction of the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...that he did so in protest against Dictator Primo de Rivera's suppression of the Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim and lead the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Down with the King! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Would it be possible for a representative of the Houses or some one familiar with the details of Lowell and Dunster Houses to talk to groups of interested students in order to answer questions and clear up certain points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVISIONS MADE FOR INTER CLASS GROUPS IN HOUSES | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...shall at any rate watch with a very real interest the forthcoming developments, inasmuch as they will be the first manifestations of a movement, which may affect many American universities. They are certain to be quite at odds with anything we have hitherto tried on any scale; as such they merit careful consideration. In the last analysis, however, we are secretly glad that the hostages of fortune will be drawn from other ranks than ours. --Yale News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

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