Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your account of Cardinal O'Connell, TIME, Dec. 24, you say: "In another basement likewise ... he found a broken-down melodeon. Some of the pipes would sound, however. . . ." I do not know who told you that melodeons have "pipes," but it is a considerable mistake. They have reeds, and bellows, just like a common house-organ. They are encased, though, in a body similar to, but very much smaller than, the old-fashioned "square" piano. There are two treadles but they are not like the treadles of the organ, being rods run from the foot to the upright...
Bennett was several times assaulted, horsewhipped or beaten up by persons who did not like his treatment of news. He always wrote an account of such matters in the Herald. An example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence...
...more. In the presence of the insane a professor of psychology is no more at home than a country boy on his maiden voyage at sea, or a savage in the presence of an eclipse of the sun. It is a common error to condemn a subject on account of the peculiarities of the men that practice it. It is only natural that in the early stages of any science there should be an undue amount of mythological speculation. It it not to be wondered at that there are innumerable unwashed and untempered psychoanalysts who have discredited the subjects...
...Freshmen, the match this afternoon will be the most important to date for it will break the tie between the two leaders of the C division On account of pressing circumstances one match, that between G. R. Clark '32 and Russell Davis '21, was played off yesterday. The latter won by a score...
Tomorrow at 7 o'clock will take place the first showing in Cambridge of the official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game. These films, which show practically a complete play-by-play account of the game, were made by the Harvard Athletic Association. They were shown for the first time at the football dinner last night. A two-reel comedy is an added feature of the program...