Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Richard Burton believes that college sometimes helps, but often hinders.' Professor William Lyon Phelps feels that 'colleges of course do not make geniuses, nor can they frustrate them.' And he adds, 'in teaching my drama course, I tell them I haven't the slightest idea of making dramatists out of them, but I hope to make them intelligent, appreciative and therefore happy auditors...
...were thrusting out of his nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen...
...work with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...
...delegations of the Great Lakes states, all except Illinois, led by the veteran onetime Senator Burton of Ohio, fought the Illinois waterway tooth and nail, because they alleged it would lower the level of the lakes. They also charged that the survey of the All-American route was a waste of money because the project was impracticable. Another group opposed the Cape Cod Canal purchase, charging that it. was an attempt to unload an unprofitable* private enterprise on the Government...
...Anthropology 5bSever 18 Astronomy 1 Allcock-Rollins Emerson D Sands-Wyzanski Emerson F Botany 7 Gray Herb. Economics 7b Memorial Hall English 2 Ach-Dow Harvard 2 Drew-A. H. Miller Harvard 5 W. S. T. Miller-Zoll Harvard 6 Fine Arts 2d Fogg Small Rm. French 9 Adie-Burton Emerson D Chaffetz-Zarakov Emerson J Geography 7 Geol. Lect. Rm German 1a Mr. Bennett's section 3 Sever 5 Dr. Heffner's section 4 Sever 6 German 2. Sec. 1, 11 Sever 11 German 3b Sever 17 German 12b Sever 28 Greek B Sec. 1 Sever 30 Latin...