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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey. In the basement bargaining to follow, the House conferees might possibly accept these amendments provided the Senate backed down on its $24,000,000 dry fund. In the event of a deadlock, in conference, with neither branch of Congress receding, the entire $84,000,000 Deficiency bill would fail of passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Basement Bargaining | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...more just electoral laws, by true parliamentarianism and real democracy. . . . But before this can be attained there must be a period of hard work. . . . We must clean up and reorganize the government, which may take a long time, but I thoroughly believe in our ultimate success. . . If I fail it will be I, and I personally, who am to blame, but with my people behind me I shall not fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ''Alexander the Absolute | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...been fully carried out. In spite of the example of last year, volumes of reading have been prescribed, covering material sometimes vastly more extensive than could be accomplished in the six lectures which formerly were held during the corresponding two weeks. Such an increase in the assignments can hardly fail to bring with it unfortunate results: the work is performed in a more superficial manner which does not produce the same lasting value, and when examinations finally set in, the student at once feels the strain which has been imposed upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING THE CAMEL'S BACK | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...whole. Their selection of the men who are to live together will, therefore, cut across the grooves in which undergraduate social life naturally flows. This poses the question whether as a result there can be any real cohesion within the new groupings, without which, it is plain, they will fail utterly to function as intended. For the whole idea behind the experiment is an enhancement of education through social contacts to rescue the individual from submergence in the mass, to put him where he may enjoy daily social intercourse with members of the faculty and of other classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...life blanks for the Senior Album are due at once. Those who fail to comply promptly with this notice will run the risk of being omitted from the Album. Blanks may be sent to 16 Massachusetts Hall or left at Notman's Studio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

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