Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Igor Strawinsky, noted Russian composer, will give a free public lecture, in French, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is the first of Mr. Strawinsky's series of six lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
...students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year 1,000 of L. S. U.'s 8,550 students were on the State payroll). Last July, when President Smith was indicted for making free with the University's money (TIME, July 10), this lush era came to an end. Last week outsiders learned how much their fun had cost Louisiana students in humiliation...
...there is no statute of limitations on wartime deserters. The court gave him three years at hard labor, to be added to his old five-year sentence for draft evasion. If he behaves, with deductions for the six months he has already served, Prisoner 289 will be free by December...
Emerson was proud of his prickly protégé Thoreau, called him "As free and erect a mind as any I have ever met.' Just the same, two years of Thoreau as handyman around the place was more than enough for Emerson. Said witty Elizabeth Hoar: "I love Henry but do not like him," and Emerson, who knew how she felt, often quoted her wisecrack. Even closer to Henry was his crony, Poet Ellery Channing, who wrote the first Thoreau biography. Channing once confessed: "I have never been able to understand what he meant by his life...
...Committee will not find it easy at first to free itself of the difficulties regarding eligibility, something which the respective athletic associations are now able to do if only from long practice. There will be twilight grounds between eligibility and ineligibility which will prove difficult to decide due to inexperience. This, however, is the length to which the three Universities must go to prove their amateur standing...