Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court last week. Refusing to take stock in the contention that conditions have changed, Chief Justice William Howard Taft simply pointed to a Supreme Court opinion of 1917 which declared that a Louisville (Ky.) ordinance invaded "the right to acquire, enjoy and use property which is guaranteed in equal measure to all citizens, white or colored, by the 14th Amendment...
...will prophesy that by the year 1935 the Negro death rate will equal the birth rate and from then on the decrease toward extinction will be absolute. And this process will be greatly hastened by the Negro's northward migrations, by industrial competition and by being scattered all over the country...
...Senior Class Committee decided to take advantage of the mechanism of of the Harvard Fund in order to raise the gift of $150,000 which tradition demands from each class upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation, because of its obvious advantages. In the first place, granting an equal response from the members of the class, the return will be much larger in 25 years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan...
...Brugundian nobles. Francois Villon once again lives as the Robin Hood of France; Louis XI consults his astrologer; bibulous rogues hoist their beakers while their voices are raised in fulsome drinking songs; Scottish Guards march boldly; and court ladies make one regret the passing of gallantry in favor of equal rights...
...specific propositions of President Hopkins are briefly, that eligibility for university teams be limited to Sophomores and Juniors, that two major teams of equal strength be developed to play with opponents on a home and home basis, and that professional or graduate coaching be replaced by undergraduate direction. The first and second of these propositions immediately throw open to a much larger number of undergraduates opportunities for participation in football. The first also frees Seniors from the demands of intercollegiate competition and enables them to devote themselves exclusively to the primary purpose of the college. Most important...