Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale staged an impromptu debate in Spanish later on with the excuse that they had not known that Porto Rico University was desirous of debating bilingually. As it was, the honor of taking part in the first intercollegiate debate to be held in a foreign tongue fell to New York University. The latter team was defeated but it proved concisely that N. Y. U. had students who were not afraid to face a foreign audience and debate and refute in a foreign tongue. Other colleges were fearful of making themselves appear ridiculous so they declined Porto Rico's invitation...
...Disgust" with the G. O. P.'s "lack of honor" in "repudiating" its pledges to the U. S. farmer-John Napier Dyer, Indiana fruitgrower, longtime Republican. Similarly, Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite...
Rhinocerophiles are urging strictest "word of honor" observance of the rhinoceros season. When two rhinoceroses were shot, out of season, in South Africa last fortnight, a terrific hue and cry was raised to protect the "noble game...
...medieval Germany. Instead it was the ceremonies attending the laying of a corner stone of the new Germanic Museum at Munich. The gold ring in the President's hand was the honor ring of the Museum with which Herr Goldenberger, the Bavarian Minister of Education, presented...
...remote countries of the world-China, Russia-John Dewey is known and revered as the wizard of education (TIME, June 4). In the U. S. this prophet is not without honor save among the vast majority of citizens who never heard of him, so inconspicuously has he undermined all philosophy, all pedagogy. Dressed in sombre prose, his sensational thinking has not gained the easy popularity of Freud's shilling-shockers, or William James's eminently readable volumes...