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The National Association of Schoolmasters constitutes, as its name would indicate, an old defensive phalanx of masculine supremacy in pedagogy. Meeting last week at Hull, this body passed resolutions to fight the women's "irrational" policy as relentlessly as the women were pursuing it. One speaker drew a dreadful picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex War | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

This pitiful, crazy world lasted eleven years, until Virginia died. Poe then rushed from one "soulful" woman to another, vainly seeking fresh refuge. He soon died insane, bigamously engaged but still carnally innocent. Convulsive fits of drinking throughout his life had been not a cause but a secondary symptom of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychic Impotence | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

By their occupation of Tiensin, the Manchurian troops under the rebellious Chang have won a decided advantage in the first phase of their struggle with the Peking government. This development was foreshadowed last week when the national troops acceded to the ultimatum of the foreign powers and lifted their defensive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORIENTAL FIREWORKS | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

Russia is still anxious to secure ascendancy in Manchuria so that she may develop her ports in the northern Pacific, and this action has undoubtedly re-awakened her former animosity. Prospects of a Russo-China alliance with a war of revenge against Japan have once more become threatening. And the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORIENTAL FIREWORKS | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

Following the initial goal from the floor by Smith, Barbee, who was second high scorer with five baskets and who played a strong defensive game, counted with a short shot after a fast play which carried the ball under the basket. Immediately after this the Crimson guard counted again, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN EASY VICTIM FOR HARVARD FIVE, 36 TO 24 | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

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