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South Carolina's senior Senator, Coleman L. Blease, scouted the notion that his State, outstanding exemplar of secession, would bolt the Democratic ticket if Smith were nominated. This and other statements quieted the talk of Smith's "splitting" the South...
MISS HOUGH in "Not for Publication" presents a story of everyday life in an average town situated, presumably, on the Case. Pomanset is its name, Boston its exemplar of good taste, and it boasts of two daily papers, the Banner and the News. One could not reasonably expect extraordinary developments from such a situation. Miss Hough has not attempted the ridiculous...
Princeton University, exemplar of educational democracy, last week found itself in the exciting position of one who must reaffirm, or retract, or redefine the policy underlying his conduct. For years Princeton has had an honor system and an undergraduate self-government body, composed of seniors. The honor system has functioned almost perfectly. Undergraduate responsibility has been demonstrated to a lesser degree by the senior council, the powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus...
...practice an exemplar, in policy an advocate, of the highest standards of college athletic sport. Mr. Hallowell, has from his undergraduate days onward been widely known and honored beyond, as well as within, the immediate circle of his own university. Mindful of the mutual interests and purposes which Mr. Halloowell served with high integrity and generous enthusiasm, the representatives of the Yale Athletic Association join with gratitude in commemorating his distinguished service...
...nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year with copies of The New York Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor...