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...Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard Overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...
...some relation to the relaxation of the laws, police are firmly convinced at least that no increase has resulted. Nor, so far as school officials can tell, has children's contact with obscene material increased. Rektor Ole Barfoed, headmaster of one of Copenhagen's largest grammar schools, says the new license simply proves that most children are not interested in pornography. He adds: "This so-called altruism about protecting the children is often just a false way adults have of saving themselves from embarrassment...
...grammar school, Jack earned money to buy clothes, and played baseball in his spare time. He attended Bridgton Academy in Maine, earning his keep by getting up early in the morning to milk the cows and clean the stables...
...academic elegance is traceable to his schoolteacher parents in the Midlands, who provided him with a solid academic background. He performed brilliantly at Birmingham's King Edward's Grammar School and Cambridge's Trinity College. Classmates and buddies from his World War II army service remember Powell as a fearful grind who studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged...
Your article on my resignation contains some quite inaccurate statements which were falsely attributed to me in quotation marks. First, I will not be a full professor at Michigan, but an associate professor. Second, I did not say that I was the only faculty member involved in doing transformational grammar; in fact, I took pains to point out to your reporter that there were others in the department doing work in this area, and that he should discuss the matter with them. Finally, I mentioned to your reporter that the department does feel it has a commitment to the teaching...