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Prosperity, a Test. "The test which now confronts the nation is prosperity. There is nothing more likely to reveal the soul of a people. History is littered with stories of nations destroyed by their own wealth. It is true that we have accumulated a small but a blatant fringe of extravagance and waste, nourished in idleness, and another undesirable class who seek to live without work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Thus is another Utopia, soundly enough conceived, shattered by the test of reality, practice, human nature, what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOUTING | 11/26/1927 | See Source »

...H.A.A. regulations read that if you once pass out you cannot come back and see the rest of the game. We feel sure this rule will be put to a rigid test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Omega Will Drive Student Tipplers To Indoor Haunts--Band May Solve Yale Enigna | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...tendency of the college to thrust itself into the preparatory school life of the undergraduate-to-be is shown in another way: the decision of the commission of psychologisia to have the scholastic aptitude test available for the information of college authorities a year in advance of admission. The scholastic aptitude test assisted in the determination of the classes of 1930 and 1931 at Harvard, and has given reliable and illuminating information concerning the 15,000 candidates who have been examined during its experimental years of 1926 and 1927. Regarded no longer in the light of an experiment, the scholastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING BACKWARD | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

...said. "There is more leadership among the Filipinos than among any people of Europe. The Islands have given every evidence of their capability of governing themselves; the government has been in the hands of Filipinos for years. Although the percentage of illiteracy may be high, is literacy a fair test of capacity of self-government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUEZON REQUESTS INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

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