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That the Graduate School is now able to further such a lifting of standards in education is most encouraging. An ancient sage whose name has long been associated with higher education considered it his grandest duty to instruct the youth of Athens. Too little respect has centered about those who have, in this particular tradition, followed Socrates. The Graduate School of Education at Harvard will surely induce more to respect the educator by making him respect his degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISING STANDARDS | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start a tale and then spin away for all he is worth, and the devil take the hindermost reader. His new title stands for One Damn Thing After Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Extravaganza | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Blazing Fasces. As night fell, the Tiber was illuminated by searchlights and flares. High upon the Arch of Titus blazed an electric sign displaying the fasces, symbol of Fascismo. Sage U. S. parents showed their inquisitive offspring what the fasces are by displaying the "tails" side of a new U. S. dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Rome's Birthday | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...very largely smoothed out the "non-co-operative movement," the boycott of British goods and British institutions fomented by "Mahatma" Gandhi, lawyer, "saint" and sage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: New Viceroy | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...Sage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 579 STUDENTS PLACED ON DEAN'S LIST AT MIDYEARS | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

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