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...King has made himself in the United States the agent of the worst element of disorder in Haitian politics. His presence in Haiti would provoke a political agitation . . . the consequence of which would be disastrous to the population which now is accustomed to peace and labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Of Utah | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...dozens of other business men's organization in the United States should follow their lead? What then becomes of Main Street, Mr. Babbitt, and even Sinclair Lewis. With all its flummery and posing the joining spirit of contemporary America must have in it a deeper and more fundamental element. Dartmouth debaters travel New Hampshire to clash before business men's clubs on the International Debt Settlement. Rotary sends students for study in Europe. All this surely signifies something good and highly worth-while. The much abused American business organizations will certainly bear watching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

...school classes should fall of admission. One very effective means for silencing the opposition to this development is a ceaseless propaganda for the Junior College. The importance of this weapon in the success of the contemparary reorganization can hardly be over-emphasized. It will not only provide for that element now in the university which the requirements will shut out. It will also silence the accusations of intellectual exclusiveness of "shutting the gates of higher learning to the great mass of our American youth", which the legislative mind is particularly prone to absorb and to act upon for the benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LEGISLATIVE WEDGE | 2/23/1927 | See Source »

...Gamache '27 plays the part of Tom Mixer, the jealous lover, while the comedy element is taken care of by L. W. Grossman 1 G B as Jimmy and C. R. Frazier '27 playing the part of a Spanish girl Dolores Casanova...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHOOT THE WORKS" TO HAVE PREMIERE TONIGHT | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

Furthermore, Harvard is doubly appropriate as host for this meeting. Probably because of a traditional dislike of proselyting she has in the past been too prone to let relations with the preparatory school become highly informal and indefinite. The kind of relationship fostered by the Masters Meeting, lacking any element of the sentimental graduate influence, and based wholly on a fundamental community of educational interest should be strengthened and encouraged, more emphatically so because Harvard, by virtue of her wealth and enlightened leadership offers in its tutorial system and its implications much which is of unusual importance to the Headmaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FOCAL POINT | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

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