Word: bryants
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...have to put it out with is a teaspoon of water." What could have a drenching effect on the term-limits movement, however, is the Supreme Court. Officeholders will keenly be following the oral arguments this week in the case of U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Bryant v. Hill, which will be the first tests of the constitutionality of such limits. The cases involve a constitutional amendment passed by Arkansas voters in 1992 that limits U.S. Representatives to three two-year terms and Senators to two six-year terms. The amendment in question states, "The people of Arkansas find...
President James Bryant Conant '14 and later Nathan M. Pusey '28 gave McCarthy little ground. While the administration forbade the hiring of current Communists, it refused to discriminate based on past association with the Communist Party...
...providing undergraduate education. Under President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, Harvard's curriculum changed from historic humanistic breadth to an elective system of instruction. Fields of concentration and distribution requirements were started in the era of President A. Lawrence Lowell. Next came President James Bryant Conant '14, who implemented the General Education program...
...something of a national culture hero: a young one for a young nation. He was esteemed as the founder of national landscape painting in the U.S. -- the so-called Hudson River School. At his death, the wild places of the Catskills mourned him. "We might dream," declaimed William Cullen Bryant in his funeral oration on Cole, "that the conscious valleys miss his accustomed visits and that the autumnal glories of the woods are paler because of his departure." His death, opined a newspaper editorial, was "a public and national calamity." Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such...
...team returned to the Continental U.S. and enjoyed more success after that. It split a doubleheader with Bryant on April 5, and swept Rhode Island Collage two days later, before plunging into a succession of double headers with Division I foes...