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...lectures in Botany 2 "make" the course. Professor Weston is a person with that rare gift of being able to make the driest portions of a subject sparkle with interest. Not that the subject matter is uninteresting per se, but Professor Weston's wide experience and boundless enthusiasm do much to make the material especially presentable, even to the most mediocre student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Begins Publication of Eleventh Annual Guide To Courses--Reviewers Give Frank Opinions of 75 Courses | 4/15/1933 | See Source »

...facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Words of the Week | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unwetting Washington | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...truffes for this beef, which must be good judging from the way in which that classmate of mine is devouring it. There is a charm in a hall like this; and the worthies who look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass, and holding his wings like a fowl in distress, is decidedly out of place there, if a Freshman might venture an opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL VS. CLUBS. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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