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...time when personal liberty is in danger. We must take account of where we stand or we shall go down as other nations have gone down." He reminded the country of two earlier laws which had been allowed to die-the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Fifteenth Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speeches | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

Immediately following the spring recess, on Wednesday, April 29, the fifteenth annual group of divisional examinations will begin, to continue until May 21. The addition this year of Ancient and Modern Languages to the group of examinations marks the continued growth of the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONAL EXAMINATIONS TO BE 15 YEARS OLD ON APRIL 29 | 4/18/1925 | See Source »

...exhibition of old textbooks, ranging from the illuminated tomes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the homely volumes which Harvard professors wrote themselves for the instruction of their pupils, is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. Together with these home-made textbooks of Harvard College is assembled much information about the early days of the University and the contemporary undergraduate customs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Textbooks at Widener Reveal Undergraduate Life and Customs of Eighteenth Century--Path of Freshmen Hard | 3/13/1925 | See Source »

...time being 19 minutes flat, but O'Neil broke a shoe-lace in the last half-mile and this was largely responsible for his defeat. The second Springfield man took fifth place and then after a long string of Crimson runners, three Springfield men took twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CROSS-COUNTRY MEN MAKE CLEAN SWEEP | 11/8/1924 | See Source »

...public eye. Then the spotlight falls upon a ten-year old lightning calculator. For an instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys, infant prodigies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOW, WILLIE-- | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

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