Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme of the conference will be "Christian Belief in Action." Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the National Y. M. C. A., will point out to the delegates some of the weaknesses in the present social and industrial order...
...action taken on Monday by the Princeton Senior Council only throws into more vivid relief the importance of the spirit that lies behind such cooperation between administrators and students. In tendering its resignation, the Princeton Council has registered the most effective protest possible against that form of student government which by edict of the dean hopes to effect lasting and beneficial reform. It is brought out clearly in the resignation of the Council that the step is taken not as a protest against the particular reform in question, but against the spirit in which it is made...
...taking this action we wish it to be clear that we are expressing neither objection nor approval regarding the substance of the act of the Board of Trustees forbidding student ownership and operation of automobiles, but that we are expressing objection to the principle involved in its passage. The Senior Council
...remained a mystery. And Dr. Abbott, withdrawing his resignation, remained headmaster. Whatever it was that had prompted the resignation?an offer from another school? a quarrel with the trustees over a four-year-old medical supervision policy??was kept secret, and Dr. Abbott was kept headmaster, chiefly through action of the Lawrenceville boys. They posted a deputy to keep strangers from their grounds. They observed a self-imposed censorship of conversation. If that traditional confidant and encyclopedist of Lawrenceville's most intimate affairs, the keeper of the Jigger Shop, knew anything, he too kept silent. The Lawrence. undergraduate newspaper...
...mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife?Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with...