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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting will be followed by a dinner at 6:30 o'clock at which Elwood Kemp Secretary of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League will speak. Mr. Kemp will outline the aims of the organizations he represents and will describe how the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League is planning to help the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFERENCE OF COLLEGES MEETS AT COMMANDER TO DISCUSS BASKETBALL | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist. Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles started Yale's mental hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise have full-time psychiatric staffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erratum | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: "One can imagine our shaggy ancestors fighting fiercely with other wild savages or can picture them chasing through the dark underbrush after an animal that they hoped to broil over their fires that evening for dinner. Then, in the protection of the cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fence and Offense | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Speaking at a Thanksgiving dinner for American students today. Dr. Will Spens, master of Corpus Christi College, expressed a belief that the adoption by Yale and Harvard of the English college system would be likely to fall. The local success of the system could only be maintained after 300 years of experiment and under conditions peculiarly English, he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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