Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been exposed...
...usually, "I spent most of the time in hospitals." He carried this attitude so far that when his War-novel (A Farewell to Arms) was being cinematized he took pains to deny all publicity stories of a more glamorous military career, scotched plans for a "world premiere" at Piggot, Ark. (where he happened to be staying), by fleeing the town before the film's arrival...
That any undergraduate whose privilege has expired may ask and generally obtain permission for ten or twenty more entries into Widener's Ark is no solution. No student should have to ask as a favor what should be a right. No arrangement can be satisfactory that does not give those striving for honors unlimited opportunity to gain the fullest benefit from the "finest college library in the world...
...ahead of the times but behind the times is Professor Slichter's school for employers, for Labor has already provided itself on a much larger scale with schools for employes including Labor colleges (Brookwood, in Katonah, N. Y., Commonwealth, in Mena, Ark.). Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers...
...Negro Robert Morris, 21, was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, became the first U. S. Negro lawyer on record. In 1873, at Little Rock, Ark., Mifflin W. Gibbs became the first Negro municipal court judge. Not until 1937 when President Roosevelt named 32-year-old William Henry Hastie to be Federal judge in the Virgin Islands had a Negro ever sat on a Federal bench...