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Nobody doubts that the scholarship system should be encouraged throughout the country: Poverty ought not to fetter the exceptional mind...
...suspended over the audience in an electrically lighted quarter-moon, will be missing the high point of this comedienne's career. She is also pretty funny as a noisy first nighter, a haughty Theatre Guild box-office clerk, a strip tease artist. Best tunes: Now (Vernon Duke & Ted Fetter), Little Old Lady (Hoagy Carmichael & Stanley Adams...
First really big story for Colonial editors was the repeal of the Stamp Act, which they considered a punitive tax and a fetter to a free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares...
...gods at Johns Hopkins Medical School in its beginnings. The endowment for one of these proposed chairs is $500,000. Not only will the occupant be well paid but he will have paid assistants to teach and to aid his researches. In sharp contrast to the iron rules that fetter so much of the earlier endowment, these professorships are to be flexible. The chair is to be fitted to the man, not the man to the chair. The sought-for professors will be men "who are working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way that they will...
Debating the subject: "Resolved, that radio is lowering the cultural standards in America," the negative team won a unanimous decision last night, in a mixed meeting of Harvard and Radcliffe Freshmen. In addition to the two judges, Miss Priscilla Gough and the Reverend Mr. Newton C. Fetter, a decision was taken of the audience, to make up the third vote. J. M. Swigert '30, coach of the University debating squad, acted as chairman of the evening...