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...door open?" The Senate, 60 to 12, refused to recognize the force of his interjection. Said Pennsylvanian Reed: "This is absolutely unnecessary.* This is unwise if we are to pay any atten- tion to the Pan-American idea." And Senator Fess (from Ohio, like Mr. Willis) cautioned: "It will disturb our relations."; New Mexican Bursum added : "We had $200,000,000 trade with Mexico last year. We may have $1,000,000,000 soon." A last vain attempt to close the border was made by West Virginian Neeley: "Why shut out the golddiggers of Italy and citizens of Norway...
...were few-of a leader who left behind him a long catalogue of notable achievements and who gave his life for you and for me as truly as any soldier who ever died in battle. When any man for campaign purposes or to gain a partisan advantage undertakes to disturb the repose of that leader, I brand him as a political ghoul and declare him to 'be unfit for the society of decent people...
...name in national headlines as a modernist was the Rector of St. Bartholomew's, Manhattan-the venerable Leighton Parks. Millions read his name and hundreds wrote him letters. Some of the letters were "brutally abusive." Hellfire, they said, was not too dreadful for a man who would disturb the peace of the Church...
...course, that there have been no storms, no periodic tempests to disturb the tranquility of Dean Briggs' administration. There have been a few,--quite recently--but they have been weathered to the satisfaction of everybody but the most hypercritical. Most important to the individual, the benefits of competitive athletics--often attacked and even denied--have been preserved and democratized; while the feeling of good sportsmanship with other colleges has been carefully nourished and encouraged. During his long guardianship Dean Briggs has brought University athletics to a condition of which he may well feel proud, and for which the University owes...
Since the new position of the statue is more central its presence will add rather than detract from the appearance of the Yard. The slightly inaccurate historical impression that the statue gives as to the early history of the college will not disturb the visitor from parts unknown more now than before. Many natives even now are blissfully ignorant of the fact that the statue is not modelled after John Harvard, but after a much later Harvard graduate, and that John Harvard himself only bequeathed books instead of actually founding the college. But whatever his history, it is only fitting...