Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone in this attitude, as only last year Michigan forbade its students to own cars at school. This evident lack of laisser-faire is most deplorable. When the reference to students of weak character was made, the whole brief of the opposition to autos was torn down and a firm foundation for that of the advisability of keeping hands off in the matter was laid. If the problem lies within the character of the student, it is to be supposed that men of college age, with or without cars, can ride on to their destiny free from unnecessary meddling interference...
...undergraduate Perkins was captain of a victorious crew, and subsequently a member of the athletic committee. He graduated from the Law School in 1897, and has since been associated with the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boy-den, and Perkins. Since the founding of the Harvard Endowment Fund, Perkins has been a member of both the National executive committee and chairman of the greater Boston Committee...
...recently elected Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Eplsgopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray has taken a firm stand against 99 11-100 percent Americanism. In an article in the October issue of the American Church Monthly, Bishop Murray writes. "Good is in the ascendant, and the comparative ratio of increase (of population) is decidedly in its favor. We are living in the best age of human history." Is it by accident that the leaders of our public life are such defiant optimists. Or is it one more indication of why we are so popular in Europe? New Republic...
...Andover line showed strength, holding firm against the fiercest attacks of the visitors, and charging well on offense. Richardson and Wheeler stood out prominently behind the Blue line. Wetmore and Ticknor played stellar football for Harvard...
...education one dare go no great distance, leaning upon theory alone. That must be the criticism, in the large, of Dr. Kirkpatrick's effort. He is a firm believer in the eventual effectiveness of democracy. "Academic democracy," he states, "is here used to indicate that type of school very rare as yet in which first the patrons and supporters, second, the teachers and officers of administration, and finally, the pupils or students are so related to each other that they share mutually in the conduct of all the major as well as the minor activities of the school." And later...