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...would, I think, be almost dishonest - certainly most ungracious - if I didn't let you know what an amazingly fine job I think you have been doing with TIME. I set aside this last weekend to clean up a lot of work that had accumulated at my home. I started to look over an accumulation of magazines that had piled up, looking mostly for reviews of books and plays. Then I picked up the March 22 issue of TIME, read it through, did the same with the issue of the 29th and April 5. This is a rather difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

More than 20 years ago, in the White House, Theodore Roosevelt sat chatting with Leonard Wood after a stiff fencing bout. Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age. (History is even now saying that in four years Leonard Wood advanced Cuban civilization four centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...this question the great proconsul at Manila expresses no opinion. He proceeds with his -the betterment of the Islands and the Islanders, socially, economically. He does it quietly without forced marches or strained rhetoric. Fit for independence or fit for exploitation ? the General scrupulously keeps to his job of making the Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...hospital to which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...such outburst will greet the undergraduate articles on concentration, port of which appear in the news columns of today's issue and the rest of which will be published tomorrow. The public is slowly coming to realize that Harvard students are sincerely interested in their job, are consequently studying it in systematic fashion, are strongly inclined against timidity in speaking their minds, think with reasonable perspicacity, and express themselves with a certain amount of perspicuity. It is interesting to note that in the forty-six issues which the CRIMSON published between September 24 and November 21 the date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCENTRATION | 4/13/1926 | See Source »