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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should...
...express to Captain Webster, Mr. Jones, and the entire Yale team the hope that they win and win decisively with no implication against the football team or good name of Harvard. --The Yale News...
...beauty of this cross is significant of the high motives which actuate this occasion, but marble [an error, it was granite] alone could not express the warm friendship and sympathetic understanding which are brought to us by these distinguished representatives of the Dominion. . . . Many of us imagine that the long peace that has existed between us is due to a treaty now nearly 110 years old for disarmament upon the Great Lakes. That peace is due not to the treaty but to the spirit that led to the treaty; it is due not to a formal bond of agreement...
...Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins. On paper, as the sporting fraternity is prone to express...
...observation has been that the law schools are endeavoring to teach their students not only the fundamental principles of the law, but they are also developing a capacity to express one's thoughts accurately, Society looks to the lawyer for constructive leadership. Twenty one out of the twenty nine of our Presidents have been lawyers, and a very large proportion of the members of our Congress and of our several state legislatures are now and always have been lawyers...