Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state, so that the need for a sound and fair method of apportionment is an urgent one. Cases can occur in which the use of a wrong method would affect half the states in the Union...
...minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the English-speaking world. To destructive critics who take this position, one would like to suggest that it is just as fair to condemn education in general because educated men recently made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have the will to serve society as well as they can, but society must be willing to be served by them. To our friends...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
After all, it is hardly fair to arraign the undergraduate press alone for superficiality. A flow of printer's ink is the only division between the mass of students and the student editor. If cynic flippancy and supreme omniscience till the editorial pages, they are only the expression of one mind or the others of ill-directed curiosity that misses the value of circumspection, typical of the undergraduate attitude of today. The papers have become truer mirrors of current ideas than they ever tried...
...about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good tea at the Trout Inn, and pausing to think of Fair Rosamond at the Godstow Nunnery? Boars' Hill, with a view of Oxford on one side and the Berkshire Downs on the other, or Cummor Hurst, or Shotover Hill, are all within easy walking distance. Short cycle rides will open an even more extensive region to the wayfarer with three...