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...Republican party under present leadership has forgotten the principles upon which it was founded and become a party of hypocrisy and deceit. ... Its record lies in a wreckage of broken promises and repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ebullient Partisan | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...compromise on Bicker Week. The present system of election must go along with various other noxious customs. NO man in his right, mind can defend Bicker Week and keep a shred of honesty. The manner of elections calls forth the worst elements in human nature pride, jealousy, deceit, desire for revenge and hatred. A system founded on such a basis must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...University Band never made the records, the plaintiffs maintain, and in offering them for sale, the defendants are guilty of knowing deceit, "calculated to cause disrepute to said Harvard University and to said Harvard University Band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME "HARVARD" ON TRIAL THIS MORNING | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Plaintiffs Charge Deceit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME "HARVARD" ON TRIAL THIS MORNING | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...perfectly clear that the so-called system cannot exist and thrive merely on the threat of expulsion or social ostracism for violation: it can only live when the great mass of undergraduate and particularly upperclass sentiment puts a ban on dishonesty, when Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There is no difference in the type of student, at the two universities certainly. Our American democratic spirit grants the First Families of Virginia no higher code of honor than the Last Families of Podunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/7/1920 | See Source »

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