Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decision of the Harvard Corporation to resume Sunday concerts on the Lowell House tower bells will be greeted with mixed feelings in various quarters. There are, of course, persons who like nothing better of a Sunday afternoon than the healthy clamor of a nice, big Russian carillon. There are others who can take their carillons or leave them, and there is a third group to whom the thing is exquisite torture...
Harvard retired in ignominious deffeat. Confident and jubilant, the Tag-and-Ticket boys clamor for a return engagement, to be played on the same ball-grounds next week...
...nothing to offer place of the New Deal policies is admittedly true. To go further left is hardly possible, the stolid attitude of the twenties is thoroughly discredited, and the present administration has stolen most of the thunder of the reform and regulation advocates. Administration extravagance, despite the clamor raised about it, is a poor basis for a platform under present conditions...
...Dartmouth College opened today, President Hopkins drove home a lesson in educational conservatism taught by a country where one might least expect it--Soviet Russia. Mr. Hopkins was speaking to his students of the great clamor recently heard in America against the disclipinary requirements of our college curricula. Much criticism has been voiced, he said, against all those subjects which call for painstaking study and mastery of exact factual data. The labor of learning foreign languages, for example, has been under fire, on the ground that it is not worth the trouble. The whole system of giving "marks" or grades...
...freedom, which the new land heralded, they found denied?to them and to their children. Still they laughed, and wept, and sang, while through the South the cotton fields bloomed white beneath their patient labor. And then, amid the clamor of the guns, a voice proclaiming Freedom, and the chains fell off and a light flooded over them?free?free...