Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that she committed an act which many of us doubtless think involves moral turpitude, but an act is not a crime always and there is no presumption that this act was a crime. The Congress did not contemplate that the act, if a crime in this country, would be ground for exclusion. If that were so, every man who sold or manufactured liquor in other lands would be barred from the United States, for our courts have held that violation of our prohibition laws involves moral turpitude...
...think it is well settled that the act, to become ground for exclusion, must be a crime under the law of the place where it was committed. This record shows nothing to indicate that. There is no presumption that the act was a crime, and the affidavit that adultery is not a crime in South Africa settles the issue definitely...
...Then was the Wrath of the Sons of Harvard kindled within them, and they answered and said, No verily, neither thou, nor they Comrade Thomas shall be expelled; nor shall a Hair of your Heads fall to the Ground...
With football uncertainties thus dissipated and the ground cleared for spring preparations, the feverish speculation of the past winter ought to give way to a more normal outlook. The brief statement made yesterday by the new coach is indicative of his plans and will receive the approbation of the vast majority of Harvard football followers. He declares that he believes the Haughton plan to be basically sound and that he purposes no wholesale scrapping of accepted fundamentals...
...have shown great activity so that one may well ask why the students of American begin only now to participate in this movement. The answer, to my mind, is very simple: because the situation of students in Europe is essentially different from that in America and because the ground for such students unions was far better prepared...