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The wise do not know everything. Samuel Johnson, able lexicographer, once ejaculated: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all!" Yet Mrs. Mary Harris Jones-"Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Sir, a Woman | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

Battling for the honors of the University and Alpha of Massachusetts, the local chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa came through on Saturday with a victory of 11-1 over their traditional rivals from New Haven. After only three practice sessions, the team showed excellent form and worked together with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Chapter Caps Climax of Abbreviated Baseball Season Swamping Yale Key Men by Score of 11 to 1 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

Georges Barbot, who has accomplished such surprising feats with his miniature plane, will return to France convinced that the perils of flying are slight indeed compared with the dangers of landing in the American countryside. A fall left his little machine practically undamaged, but a single night at the mercy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "--'AMMER, 'AMMER, 'AMMER" | 6/9/1923 | See Source »

Perhaps the most surprising note in these suggestions is the recurrence of one particular complaint the Tutoring Schools. Among a host of miscellaneous ideas, the repeated condemnation of those institutions stands out as one those institutions stands out as one fault on which most of the Senior were agreed. And...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND HAND | 5/26/1923 | See Source »

It is surprising to discover that Graduate School freshmen are actually as green as college freshmen are reputed. No one would suspect a Law School student of attempting to dodge the hard work obviously necessary for training a lawyer. Nevertheless, in order to protect the embryo Mr. Tutts from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE LIGHTNING CALCULATOR" | 4/24/1923 | See Source »

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