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Massachusetts State Republican Chairman Charles Gibbon, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in last fall's election, said yesterday that any action the State Committee would take concerning the present HYRC election controversy would come after action by the University. He said he had released no further comment on the matter...
...Gibbon stated that he had been misrepresented in the 11:30 p.m. WHRB newscast of Feb. 27. He denied having told WHRB the following things which were broadcast over the station: that he was disturbed by the HYRC dispute, that the State Committee was planning to look into the matter further, and that action would come only after a report of the special HYRC investigating committee. Gibbon said that he had not even heard of the special committee...
...FOOTNOTE*-At present more than 4,000 (only 32 new ones have been added in the last five years), the majority because of "theological error" rather than immorality. Among Indexed books: Richardson's Pamela; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Hugo's Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, all the works of Anatole France, Zola, Maeterlinck...
...addition to classroom politics, Herman was fond of history, biography and a study of the U.S. Constitution. Other pleasures: Greek and Roman classics, Gibbon's Decline and Fall. He stayed late only if the class was debating. Other days he went home to his chores. One afternoon in 1930, while Herman was picking turnips, the house caught fire and burned to the ground (with one casualty, a German shepherd dog named Al Smith). Gene, who was spending weekdays in Atlanta as agriculture commissioner and only weekends at home as a father, took advantage of the fire to move...
...trend to professionalism tends to destroy the one thing which made America a great nation; great discoveries and inventions are made primarily for service and not for monetary gain." Rusty said that somewhere in The Decline and Fall Historian Edward Gibbon listed the professionalizing of athletics as one of the five reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. "And we are moving in that direction here. When we were youngsters, we played games because we wanted to, and won because we were the best, not because we expected to receive any extra rewards. Sometimes I wonder whether the average...