Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there should be no judicial weighing of the matter at Harvard. Military science must appear to many as an incongruity in any college of the liberal arts. And the continuance of courses in the art of war at a time when education is believed to be a capable agent for peace discourages the faithful adherent of that cause...
...rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that two years will close the political career of Mrs. Ferguson, and he is doubtless 'making hay while the sun shines.' Is Jim Ferguson the unseen agent that acts before the pardon board for the criminals and then sits at the right hand of 'Miladi' while she signs on the dotted line? Talk about high finance. Somebody, somewhere down the line must be getting lots of cash...
Gould is New York Agent...
...rumor current yesterday in the club district that prohibition enforcement agents, working in conjunction with the College authorities, would shortly attempt to stamp out drinking in the University, was emphatically denied by George Parker Federal Prohibition Enforcement Agent in New England. Inquiries at the Dean's Office also failed to produce anything but denials on the part of College authorities...
...undergraduates who come under him, and whom he comes to know in many cases far better than do most teachers in their classrooms, is incalculable," Dr. Kennedy writes. "If that influence is good, making for discipline and inculcation of sportsmanship, the coach becomes in a real sense an assisting agent in the processes of the student's education. If that influence is evil, permitting false values and a repudiation of sportsmanship to govern the boy's point of view, the coach becomes a sinister, and perhaps a powerful underminer of the high purpose of the college...