Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial then proceeds to demand very justifiably that the results of the questionnaire be placed "in reliable and trained hands" and that assurance be given of the responsibility of those sponsoring the whole affair...
...pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar? As for the questionnaire, Harvard will become more of a laughing stock if the officials quash the whole affair, than if every student were proved to be a debauchee...
...thirtieth reunion of the class of 1904 in the form of a tea at the White House this spring has apparently been called off by President Roosevelt, according to the United Press. The affair, announced yesterday by Edward F. Taft '04, secretary of the class, is supposed to have been cancelled a month ago. The United Press attempted last night in vain to secure confirmation of the cancellation through Marvin F. McIntyre and Stephen T. Early, secretaries at the White House, for President Roosevelt had retired for the evening...
...this tendency which is responsible for many of our worst crimes, and the first step in any attempt to stop criminality should be a drive against the agencies behind it. There are, moreover, facilities at the disposal of a criminal which make a crime a rather simple affair. Machine guns, automatic pistols, armored cars, and swift means of escape from pursuers, all combine to simplify the criminal's attempt. The last factor responsible for much of our crime is the ease with which an offender is able to escape punishment. Shyster lawyers, pleas of insanity, crooked judges, and bribed juries...
...Dean's office will demand that assurances be given on these matters. In accordance with official custom in such an affair it may go even farther and put a stop to the whole thing. The former would be an obvious duty; the latter would be a grave mistake. For, let there be no misunderstanding, any sincere and scientific investigation of this kind merits support as a courageous effort to supply data on an important subject which has been needlessly and unintelligently obscured. All that any sensible man can ask is that there be certain definite evidence of responsibility. It would...