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This similarity and the hot competition it caused, the first of several such struggles in the CRIMSON's history,, was one of the reasons for the gradual swing of the contents of the CRIMSON away from literary essays and poems to matters of the day. Although the fortnightly CRIMSON contained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PRINTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MARKING CLOSE OF TENTH YEAR IN PRESENT OFFICES | 11/21/1925 | See Source »

Perhaps no American university is so fortunate as Harvard in having on its faculty a large number of true scholars. They are the real educators. But any student of one year's residence can name a few pedants too. If the ideals of students are to be changed; if scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY AREN'T STUDENTS STUDENTS | 11/4/1925 | See Source »

Now Mr. Chrysler is giving some of his erstwhile competitors gooseflesh by declaring that the next two years will see the most revolutionary changes in the entire history of the motor business. According to Mr. Chrysler, the whole swing will be toward lighter cars; and oversize, over-weight motors are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Predicts | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Proposal No. 1. M. Caillaux's first offer called for payments in general as follows: $25,000,000 a year for five years; $30,000,000 a year for the next five years; $60,000,000 a year for the next ten years; $90,000,000 a year for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The French Debt | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

Wood Alcohol. German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemists | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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