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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More far-sighted and cogent to those publishers who regard the Canadian industry as a monopoly, was the proposal of onetime Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of the Omaha World-Herald. Said he: "Whatever the directors do of a temporary nature ought to be supplemented by some action towards permanent relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulp Palaver | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The House Masters have consistently reiterated that they will bend every effort towards making their Houses represent a cross section of The College. There can be no airtight method of arriving at a true cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CROSS SECTION | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

Blindness Defined. Fixing on a definition of blindness was a difficulty. The U. S. definition is "inability to see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prevention of Blindness | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

These are merely two of the many points which should be openly discussed at this time when the chapel plans are still changeable. As potentially Harvard men, the undergraduates should be permitted to have some influence in deciding the many issues which the erection of this building will undoubtedly call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNAP JUDGEMENTS | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

The Department of Chemistry has acquired a fine new set of buildings. But they are not organized to the best advantage of the students. The hampering blunders of the storeroom attendants are symbols of short-sighted policy. Their comparatively minor annoyance is but another indication of the reactionary attitude which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME TO CLOSE UP | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

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