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Christopher Columbus performed the impossible feat of making an egg stand on one end by slightly cracking and flattening that end of the eggshell. Sheldon Whitehouse, by means equally simple and direct, un-cracked the Guatemalan joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: We Are Not Amused | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...education came last month a book * that roused to ire many a U. S. college dean. His thesis: that U. S. universities are inferior in most ways to those of England, France, Ger many, that they "have needlessly cheap ened", vulgarized and mechanized them selves ... a wild, uncontrolled, and un critical expansion has taken place." The true university, says he, must be a living organism, devoted to the pursuit of knowledge courses." and Law culture, and not to medicine "endless alone among special professional studies would Dr. Flexner retain; out would go business, journalism, agriculture, "practkal" courses. Said he: Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Women, Expansion, Flexner | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Copeland will present a repertoire of modern music, featured by four selections from Debussy. "L'Apres-midi d'un faune," one of the most famous of Debussy's works, will be the climactic selection of the second group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIANO RECITAL BY COPELAND IN PAINE HALL THIS EVENING | 12/5/1930 | See Source »

...program I Mennet Muffat Pastoral Capriccio Scarlatti Mennet Ravel Jesus Christus, Filius Dei Bach II Gnossienne Sabie Prelude Debussy La Soiree dans Grenade Debussy Danse de Pucto Debussy L'Apres-midi d'un fanne Debussy III Espano cani Unknown Tango Espagnole Albents El Polo Albents Canco danza. No V Mompon Homenaje a la joto Niu Malaguena Lecuena

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIANO RECITAL BY COPELAND IN PAINE HALL THIS EVENING | 12/5/1930 | See Source »

...true, in a sense somewhat different from that intended by Galileo, that 'Nature's great book is written in mathematical language.' So true is it that no one except a mathematician need ever hope fully to understand those branches of science which try to un ravel universe-the theory fundamental of nature of relativity, the the theory of quanta and the wave-mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-Newtonian | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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