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Happily, the play does not at the same time sink into the sloughs which is the grave of so many who strive to tread the tremendous and slippery path of the golden mean. Whether this is due alone to the quality of the acting which lifts the audience safely over the soft places, it is difficult to say. Enough that the fact remains that the work of the small cast of five is practically without exception excellent...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...same time, probably studying during the evening, or taking extension courses under the direction perhaps of men who have themselves trod the same path. Once he learns and understands the principles, he is then in a position to do a little selling, and once he reaches the stage where he can call on banks, bankers, and other investors, he will be able not only to understand their requirements and give them the service that they need and the information about securities which his House can offer, but he is also able year by year to increase his volume of business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...inevitably aroused when the adequacy of the club or fraternity system is challenged will grant that Harvard has undertaken the more difficult task when she attacks the problem as it relates to undergraduates. One can but admire the courage of the Harvard authorities in venturing upon so thorny a path. --McGill. Daily

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

Secretary of State. Henry Lewis Stimson of New York, began crossing water at the behest of Presidents 23 years ago in Rock Creek Park, Washington. There he was riding on the bridle path one drizzly afternoon when he heard his name imperiously called from across the creek. The caller was Mr. Stimson's Manhattan law chief, Elihu Root, then Secretary of State. out for an airing with President Roosevelt. Sergeant Stimson of Squadron A. N. Y. National Guard, spurred his horse over the swollen stream, nearly foundered in the middle, clambered up the slippery bank opposite, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Eight New, Two Old | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...mechanical man could walk, Captain Richards stated that without a sense of balance, nothing, on two legs, could walk. At the suggestion of a gyroscope, he said, that the necessary mechanism would weigh far too much and that it would fall at the least irregularity of the path...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Soon to Supplant Humans in Purely Mechanical Tasks Inventor Predicts--Has Already Shown Signs of Intelligence | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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