Word: brought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared. As a clerk slowly droned names that did not respond, Vice President Curtis brought down his gavel, announced that the Senate stood adjourned sine...
...Aldrich Library of Finance, acquired through the generosity of the Aldrich family of Providence and constituted chiefly of the material on banking, finance and the tariff brought together by Senator Nelson Aldrich in his lifetime, adds to the school's possession in these fields. Housed as it is in a separate room, it provides an excellent reference reading library for students who wish to withdraw from the rush of their everyday obligations to read comfortably and leisurely in the history of those subjects which certainly have lost none of their importance since the days when they engaged the interest...
...have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than...
This collection, which is beginning an American tour with the Harvard show, includes examples of lacquer work as done today by Japanese potters, and many pieces made in imitation of ancient methods of glazing. The Oriental work and the work of English weavers has been brought direct from Japan and England...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...