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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever case a man who plans to seek readmission should be sure to obtain advance approval of his plan from the Dean or the proper Assistant Dean and should submit with his application for readmission letters from employers or other evidence of a similar character. Furthermore it should be understood that approval of a plan does not in self form any guarantee of readmission...

Author: By A. C. Hanford, | Title: UNIVERSITY HALL CLAMPS DOWN ON READMITTED MEN | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

...greater danger to the peace of Washington. Sir Esme Howard himself has voluntarily offered to set up a zone of local prohibition in the British embassy. And of course such an example of good-will from one power might necessitate similar action by others in order to maintain a proper diplomatic balance. What wonder that foreign capitals must be consulted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORM AND STRESS | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...would have been much fairer for you to have headed this under its proper descriptive caption rather than taking a slam at chocolates. It is all right for you to be original in your headings but please don't stray from the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

House Reception. Great was the uncertainty in the House as to the proper method of receiving the Senate's Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Sick Giant | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...even for the honors man there are bound to be a sufficient number of truly stimulating lectures in any department to make an entire abolition of course attendance undesirable. Whether or not the course reductions at present allowed Seniors who are candidates for honors has struck the proper balance between course and tutorial work in perhaps open to question. But there is certainly little reason to suppose that a general reduction in course requirements at Harvard would be a widespread blessing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN TEACH SOME OF THE PEOPLE... | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

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