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President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY | 12/8/1927 | See Source »

...they can capture the lone Farm-Laborite and hold the "radicals" in line, the Republicans will be able to do no more than tie them opponents and to pass any legislation they must count upon the Vice-President, who as a possible Presidential candidate will be reluctant to commit himself on any important issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW CONGRESS MEETS | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...because we are not always ready to commit suicide and prefer to leave the solution of our problems to the levelling hand of Destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...American football eleven. Also, he won honors in his geology course. For his athletic skill the University this year appointed him assistant football coach; for his academic record the trustees last week made him assistant to Dean Christian Gauss. Mornings he helps train undergraduates not to cut classes or commit other minor offenses; afternoons he helps train the University eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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