Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts state liquor law, diverting document that it is, does not clarify the situation which has existed since last year in regard to the serving of beer in the House dining halls. Some of the Housemasters have supported beer from the first and are growing impatient of delay, others have been converted more recently: now they stand in a fairly compact body behind its introduction. But the liquor laws and age limits exist in a fog of doubt, and until that fog is dispelled, there is small hope for action...
...customs, which have long been out of recognition, are those in the latter part of this document which, when observed, must have lent a quiet dignity to the Freshman's conduct. The first of these made the Yard essentially quiet as it forbade calling "up or down, to or from, any chamber in the College." The second kept the popular Freshman continually jumping up from his desk to receive visitors, with the exception of studying time, as it declared that when anyone knocked at the Freshman's door "he shall immediately open the door without enquiring who is there...
...Sprague's letter of resignation has become by now a very famous document, quoted and everywhere made the text for sermons on delicacy and the higher ethic. Its practical results were very dramatically shown in the dollar market--within fifteen minutes after it had reached the tickers the pound premium had gone from six to thirteen cents. And this added a touch of bitterness to the complaints of those who felt that Dr. Sprague should have spoken of his late employers with more becoming reverence, that in a time when all the future of the administration depended upon popular confidence...
...Typically enough, Sumner, eschewing the word research, maintained that, "Far from being detrimental to teaching, diligent and incessant study, was an indispensable requisite to it. This he took as axiomatic and spent no time talking about it." In form, this is a book of reminiscences; it is a sentimental document, the clear portrait of a great teacher. But it is more than that. It is a primer, an object lesson, in college teaching, and in the debt which is the college professor's to his community. Mr. Keller's thin volume belongs on the desk of every man who claims...
...Disperse!" commanded Deputy Police Chief Faraday and proceeded scrupulously to read the British Riot Act, a document of 48 words...