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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good prisonmen keep a peeled eye on conditions and methods in other prisons than their own. Some of the institutions which the conferring penologists at Albany and the penal officials at Washington view with alarm, note with pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...spirit of no mean origi- nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William James, John Dewey) which learns a Western pioneer's and Eastern businessman's view of future and past. In this group belong the Carnegies and Kellers. Optimism affected Businessman Carnegie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...advantages forces the members of the smaller community to develop their own resources. Besides preserving these opportunities, a plan for knitting the small college more closely into the educational fabric by exchanging professors with larger institutions would give the men from the more central institutions a chance to view their own educational problems free from the distracting activities of the higher pressure university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE COUNTRY | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...ingenious manner, Mr. Tunis has classified football into three periods, the Rah-Rah Stage, the age of Big Business, and the decadent period. Writing from an eastern point of view he sees the college man and the player of our Eastern universities gradually becoming less football conscious, while his midwestern brother is now struggling in the throes of footballitis in its most-malignant form. The condition in the east has reached the decadent stage, while in the mid-west the cloud of pessimism has not yet obscured the glory of football and all that it connotes. The explanation of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUE AND CRY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...orchestra who advance from a $100 a week job at a low dive to a $3000 position at the Little Aregon Cafe, all because of the energetic work of "Freddy" as played by Miss Compson. Then there is the usual mushy ending, but one can discount that in view of the rest of the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STREET GIRL" IS GOOD ENTERTAINMENT | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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