Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the Senate inquiry Senator Black of Alabama promptly promised to call Messrs. Astor, Roosevelt and Franklin before his committee and let his Indiana colleague examine them. Last week the three appeared in Washington under oath but Senator Robinson, strangely missing, did not follow up his charges. Other Senators were left to put the necessary questions. First Mr. Franklin and other officers of his company denied sending any messages to business associates aboard the Nourmahal. Then Kermit Roosevelt denied receiving any except one. in February 1933, just before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration, in which a fellow officer briefly...
...major difficulty is that the average Freshman knows little or nothing about the various Houses. Until after mid-years, they are virtually beyond his ken, and as a result he is all too prone to follow the herd and apply for either Eliot or Dunster, on the sole basis of their social merits. This tendency has not been lessened by the House Masters, who have frankly, and, in a sense, naturally, sought to obtain men whom they have known and liked, regardless of intellectual considerations. It is apparent that if the House Plan is to be a success, the Houses...
...sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw up a set of general rules for the Masters to follow in their choice of students, and if the Masters are unable to abide by them, the Committee should then, but only then, assume control. The Committee has been far less dictatorial this year than last, and it is to be hoped that soon there will be no excuse for its existence...
Some philosophers would follow Martian and his "anti-Moderne" or Paul Doolin in his admiration of the Middle Ages and Thomas Aquinas; or they would follow other paths. But none but one of the perennial, age-old doom predictors would try to continue talking of the impending and, we are told, inevitable, Death o Civilization...
...CRIMSON Vagabond was following his profession a little too eagerly yesterday and wandered off to say that Professor Baxter would lecture at nine o'clock yesterday morning. At ten minutes to nine an inquisitive Freshman who rather doubted the veracity of the vagabond called the Professor who was still in bed unconscious of his engagement. After answering the telephone, Mr. Baxter dashed up stairs, pulled on some clothes, finished his dressing on the way up Plympton-Street, and arrived at New Lecture Hall to find it locked and deserted. It seems as though the History office had not delivered...